Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adopt and pursue any policy you choose towards these matters. But for heaven's sake present that policy with some semblance of maturity based upon logic and businesslike presentations of fact...
Sleazy Lingerie. Sleazy lingerie was expensive, but easier to buy, chiefly because women were not willing to part with coupons for the sake of a chiffon nightie. (Linen sheets to go with the nighties could be had, by rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...
...confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters would stand behind bars and expound the theme of education-for-its-own sake: "The greatest of all blessings is to live and think more clearly than the vulgar herd...
...general agreement with this view. But they will also find a basic, significant difference in the Russian and U.S.-British approach to the reparations problem. The U.S. and Britain regard reparations largely as a means to.an end-the pacification of Germany. The Russians are interested in reparations for the sake of reparations. To them (and to some of the smaller nations) German labor and materials have a value entirely apart from the effect on. Germany...
...place, many of HD's sponsors are old creatures who will eat up Shakespeare but who wouldn't be able to see or hear unless they were well in front. The idea was pretty startling, moreover, for people who can't see choice seats going to waste for the sake of antiquity. It would have been a little difficult, too, to seat an assortment of Elizabethan fops on stage, or perhaps that would have been carrying Elizabethanism...