Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They contain, of course, a certain charming naivete and primitive vigor which will appeal to all those who are not annoyed by page after page of choppy declarative sentences and who enjoy a continuous parade of childish conceptions. The reader should further be warned not to let the title deceive him. No lurid tales of feminine wiles are forthcoming...
...mark. The opening tale, from which the collection draws its name, is an intimation of a desire of the author's to get away from the middle western background and attitude which featured his novel. In the future he will seek new fields to exploit and will let alone the Middle West which he believes is fast losing its character...
...Let phonetic-fault-finder Southwick worry less on how Al Smith enunciates and more on how Al meditates. And lest he forgets-a certain Republican president of a very recent administration did not noticeably slur his words but yet he was the cause of innumerable slurs upon his country...
Turning, she said: "I think that I will let Mr. Newton answer that...
...subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...