Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sufficiently with manners to prove Congreve the most polished of the Restoration dramatists. Like the rest of them, he had a poor opinion of the human race. Either self-indulgence or self-interest is always well downstage in Love for Love; there is no love for love's sake. But where most Restoration writers were gross, Congreve was graceful. His people air their low thoughts in high language; his scandalmongers are witty; his sluts have style...
...famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three corpses, the Los Angeles police force, and the old bulldog's unpleasant son (Conrad...
...circumstances, preserved their integrity as men. One prisoner is a major who forlornly misses each year's Derby. One is a blind Scottish boy who tries to break off with his girl. One is an ex-burglar who learns so much decency that he sacrifices repatriation for the sake of a fellow prisoner. One is a Welshman whose aging wife dies bearing their first child. A corporal, his close friend, embodies most of the sterling virtues of England's Common...
...respectable student council federation with annual parliamentary junkets. Regional delegates, meeting here over the weekend in a warmup before this September's week-long Constitutional Convention at the University of Wisconsin, displayed unanimous determination to steer clear of both political axe-grinding and do-nothing organization for its own sake. What they are out to build is an utterly representative national body in which every American student will feel himself a citizen-member. Their aim is to coordinate the efforts of students in the solution of common problems; to provide a voice that can speak and command respect when...
...Marshall warned: "We must not compromise on great principles in order to achieve agreement for agreement's sake." He reminded the world that misery could not wait: "We cannot ignore the factor of time involved here. . . . The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate. . . . So I believe that action cannot await compromise through exhaustion...