Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let the sorry Elmira woman turn to Music...
...TIME, current issue). The scrivener runs riot, tom-tomming all over his paragraph. Let a protest be noted. Peeping TOMS, TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind...
...Finally, let able Jumper Hoyt state why he jumped. TIME assumes him to possess a better reason than that given by one Elsie Ekengren, 17-year-old schoolgirl, who told reporters that after making his acquaintance on shipboard she girlishly cried, "I dare you to jump overboard," whereupon Jumper Hoyt jumped...
...Let Mr. Ole Oftedal of Milwaukee be assured that rescued jackass Nobile means no gain to the world, but men of the north will forever honor Roald Amundsen, son of the vikings, who died as he lived-a hero...
...Hearing that newsgatherers were talking about mosquitoes on the Brule, President Coolidge asked specifically if any newsgatherer had been bitten by any mosquito on the Brule. There are, he let it be known, no mosquitoes on the Brule and whoever says so is a bearer of false report...