Word: let
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have become a barber and so permitted myself constant association with this dæmon of mine did not California have a license law requiring four years of study of shaving and men's haircutting (neither of which interest me). Lest you think I am a degenerate let me say that I am married, have two children, am 32 years of age, an army veteran with Croix de Guerre, a poet of local fame at least, and a successful businessman. My wife has never had the slightest inkling of this peculiarity-for, fortunately, I identified it early...
Planes Ordered. Contracts for 147 service and battle planes were let by the Navy. Ordered also were 168 motors. Total cost...
...Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...
...nurse's 13-hr, record was typical of the heart's variations. When she listened to music her heart beat 98.6, its fastest. At supper it slowed to 82.5. Preparing to play cards sent the rate up; playing let it go down. Preparing for bed jumped it; turning the lights out lowered it. As she dropped into sleep the rate wobbled...
...next piece to get into print was "A Defy" to all the poets from whom he was frank to steal phrases because they "steal more than a plenty from me." In anyone but a colyum conductor that last line might have aroused curiosity. But Colyumist Phillips, discreetly dense, let things go along and two weeks later published the following, again signed WILFRED J. FUNK: WALL STREET WAILS...