Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no such thing as graft which is honest. Let us stop that practice if there has been...
...last week, at the presentation of Monologuist Draper. Was she any the less an "actress," they stormed, because during her recitals she assumes successively all the roles of an entire cast instead of confining herself to one? Somebody ought to speak to the Lord Chamberlain! Shameful that he should let the bars down in favor of an American. Probably some relation to Coolidge. Fiddlers in his family, too, My Dear! Courtiers smiled away such absurdities. They recalled that Edward of Wales attended a recital by Miss Draper some years ago and later spoke favorably of her in his family circle...
...contracts were let to the world potent International Telephone & Telegraph Company, of which U. S. financier and Morgan associate Sosthenes Behn is President. The I. T. & T. is now in process of absorbing the Postal Telegraph and other companies of famed Clarence H. Mackay (TIME, April...
...light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from...
Berliners were startled, last week, by a sly remark reported to have been let fall by Soviet Ambassador to Germany, Comrade Nicholas Krestinsky...