Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate dinner at Chicago last week, where he was scheduled to speak, seemed to be an ideal platform. But Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, a Stevenson man, included New York's Averell Harriman and Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver on the program for the sake of party peace...
...This is evil for evil's sake...
Camphor balls and chrysanthemums mingled their odors in stately Meiji Memorial Hall last week as eager bridegrooms in rented cutaways thronged Tokyo's biggest marriage center to claim their kimonoed brides. In the corridors couples stood ten and twelve deep, waiting to go through the sake-drinking ceremony known as three-times-three-is-nine. Between marriages, the blue-and-white-robed Shinto priests, whose duty it is to provide suitable flute music, raced to washrooms to soak their aching fingers in hot water...
...greater than that ever ruled by the British Empire, may today better understand Rudyard Kipling -"this literary man," as Biographer Carrington puts it, "[who asserted] that literary men were not the most important people in the world, or not until they practised their Art for Duty's sake...
...Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that the acting style of twenty-five years ago is not always ludicrous...