Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across a swindling scheme, meets Miss Day, and spends the rest of the picture trying to protect himself from her advances. Of course, she reforms him, changes his taste in ties, and the two of them indulge in an inevitable sticky romance, thereby comenting relations for the movie's sake, anyway...
...last Thursday night's Company Dog smoke, it has been strongly suggested that your correspondent's by-line consist of just plain "Toots," and it probably would be a good idea if such reportorial cuteness could succeed in running the battery of editorial blue pencils, but, alas, for the sake of naval dignity, the "Toots" part will have to remain sort of unofficial...
...together, nothing is impossible. If we are divided, all will fail. I therefore preach continually the doctrine of the fraternal association of our two peoples, not for any purpose of .... territorial aggrandizement . . . but for the sake of service to mankind...
...captain's face was white. "For God's sake, shut up," he snarled...
Even at 13 Miss McGuire was doing well for herself on the stage. In an Omaha production of A Kiss For Cinderella she tried her best not to hog the show, for the sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...