Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...
...Let the meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
...plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment of the debts (TIME, July...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
Through the salons of these internationally-known couturiers, last week, wandered the elite of Paris and of Paris visitors. But U. S. women of fashion need not despair because they were not in Paris last week. Let them but wait until fall and they will find the most classic models of Worth, the most daring of Vionnet's designs, reproduced in many a U. S. department store. Instead of paying $500 for a sports costume by Chanel, they will pay $200 or $300 for a replica of the same costume in a Manhattan shop. For Paris dressmakers have found...