Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain at Valmy barracks under the name of Henry Valery. Police caught him by comparing a letter written by F.F.I. Captain Valery with samples of Dr. Petiot's handwriting. Dr. Petiot said that his 50-odd victims were collaborators and Germans whom he had murdered for the sake of France. But the police said they were Frenchmen murdered for the Gestapo...
...finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors, he refused to fall into "the error of making a religion of the esthetic." Tennyson's message, concludes Poet Auden, in words that would make Victorian moralists nod approvingly, is not art for art's sake but recognition of the fact that "an art which is beyond good and evil is a game of secondary importance...
...only once is he known to have complained bitterly to a colleague : "The Americans want me to be a slave. I don't mind being a slave for the sake of victory, but" - and his voice broke with anger and injury - "they treat me as if I were a thief...
...Lisbon. T.W.A., now flying the Atlantic for the Air Transport Command, promised also to cut the present flying time from New York to London via Foynes to 22 hours 40 minutes (New York to London without interruption). Said Mr. Frye blandly: "We are not cutting rates for the sake of cutting, but because we can operate at a profit at these rates...
...lest we forget we'll take a quick glance over the exploits of the more active and put a few on ice for old time's sake...