Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Jih Pao: ". . . Of course we welcome General Marshall's return for emergency's sake. But depending excessively on outside [foreign] strength is not very wise...
Mute as a Carp. One sunny summer morning in his Alsace home, he resolved to seek the meaning in the words of Jesus: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." A Paris missionary magazine turned his mind to Africa...
Schwieger was once conductor at the Staatsoper in Berlin. Fort Wayne had him now because he had married a Jewess. When the Nazis took over, his wife divorced him for his sake, but without his knowledge. He came to the U.S. via Japan, then sent for his wife and remarried her. After Pearl Harbor the FBI seized Schwieger as an enemy alien; he was held for 401 days until friends got him out. The day he came home from jail, his wife dropped dead...
...many of his poems fail somewhere to embarrass mature readers for the poet's sake. Critic Cyril Connolly has pointed out that in 63 poems Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which...
That settled it. For the sake of proctors' dignity, there had to be a way to distinguish G.I.s studying at Bull College, Cambridge, from mere G.I. sightseers. Soon the Bull boys were wearing a special patch on their lower right sleeves-a coat of arms featuring the Stars & Stripes, the Union Jack, the Cambridge Lions, the American Eagle and the Bull of Bull College. Master Sergeant Al Kohler, an inveterate doodler, hit on the design...