Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King George of England. We feel that he should have no difficulty in learning to feel at home with most of the other candidates, for he shares with Hoover a desire for despotism, militarism, and imperialism, and with Smith a distaste for the existing Republican regime, a desire to let others do his work, and a habit of living at public expense. It should also be mentioned that he enjoys with Messrs. Hoover and Smith an easy familiarity with the wealthy and well-born and a healthy contempt for workers. Harvard Thomas for-Pres. Club...
...particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...
...Senator Robinson is so keen about quoting my immortal prose, here is a line for him : In the present sloppy Democratic shambles, dry ice Robinson wears the harassed look of an Anti-Saloon League sitting timorously on the edge of his chair at a bartenders' convention. Let him turn that on one of his audiences and then try to giggle out of the applause...
...Let the States which wish to do so prohibit. ... I don't drink myself at all, and I don't oppose Prohibition on the ground that it limits the liberties of the people. I think that in the interest of the community, and of the man who can not resist the temptation to drink in excess, if he has the opportunity to drink at all, other citizens in the community may be properly asked and compelled to give up drinking, although that drinking may do them no injury. My objections to Prohibition are as I have stated them above...
...Paix," but marries a rich man and surrounds herself with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink, down, down, past goggling fish with drifting films of tails, past ribbons of ruffled seaweed, purple and brown," but she would be brave, she would...