Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, police found the naked body of a stenographer named Frances Brown lying in a hotel bathroom with a 12-inch bread knife through her neck. Above her, scrawled in lipstick, was the legend: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I camnot [cannot] control myself...
...London, a letter-to-an-editor suggesting that Britons give up some of their own skimpy rations for the sake of Europe brought out 30,000 volunteers in a month. In France, an American occupation soldier wrote to the editor of Stars & Stripes: "I am getting too damned fat. . . . With a lot of women, children, grown men, etc., in Europe on the verge of starvation, why do they insist on fattening us up like pigs? Please bring more for folks over here who need it and less...
When that occurred (by drowning, in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley's second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of their four children to survive the Italian climate or their father's theories of human happiness, she decided to go home and rehabilitate the Shelley name...
...doctrine of "art for art's sake" has had rough sledding in Mexico. With Mexicans, it has been religious or social art that counts. Confectioners mold candy into shapes of skulls and flowers for feast-day celebrations. Muralists line public buildings with vehement histories of oppression and revolution. For the rest, nudes, still lifes, etc. were considered mere frilly decoration. In 1922 Mexico's Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico...
...lately some of Mexico's younger artists have strayed from the aging big three's reservation. If the pictures they paint are not purely for art's sake, they are at any rate more personal than propagandist. This week Manhattan galleries got their first down payment on what promises to be a winterful of Mexican art. The exhibitions proved again Mexico City's right to rank with Paris and Manhattan as a world capital...