Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second doorman, admitting he "just got the job," suggested to a CRIMSON photographer on the scene, "For your sake, for my sake, and for the sake of your camera, you'd better leave...
...constable (Dennis O'Dea), representing law and justice, is a humane and intelligent policeman, but his motives are as implacably businesslike as his search. Johnny's fellow revolutionists try to rescue him (and are killed or captured in the attempt), not for his own sake but as a point of honor, because he is their leader. The girl (Kathleen Ryan) tries to help Johnny because she would rather die- and if need be kill him-than endure a loveless life without him. An old priest (W. G. Fay) negotiates subtly for Johnny, because he feels that his business...
...length Johnny falls into the hands of three shoddy, half-mad symbols of three strong human drives. An artist (Robert Newton), foaming with delusions of genius, tries to paint the death in his eyes; a doctor (Elwyn Brook-Jones) patches him up for the sake of his own lost pride; the third man (F. J. McCormick) schemes to sell him to the highest bidder. Under these frenzied circumstances, the delirious hero shouts his own conversion and the story's master theme: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become...
...unreligious society there is no cessation of judgment as to what is right and what is wrong. Such judgments are made, however, not out of fear of some mysterious supernatural unknown, but for the sake of the right action itself...
...believe that Mr. Taft has no greater prophetic opportunity than to begin the righting of this unbalance-righting it, not for the laymen's sake, but for the sake of Protestantism. Clericalism is a perversion of the Protestant idea. . . . The Catholic hierarchy can put the Roman Catholic Church on record, and is listened to accordingly. But both the general public and the churchgoing public are aware, I think, that no such authority is vested in the Protestant clergy. That fact has been part of the Protestant boast. Protestantism will speak with authority, and be listened to accordingly, when...