Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Come on down here, Governor, and put your foot on Virginia soil," cried a man. The candidate descended and let a flagman shine a lantern in his face so that the Virginians could see what he looked like. The light gleamed on his gold fillings. The Virginians cheered...
...also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...Let a U. S. citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest...
...takes the courage of one's convictions to undertake such a project as this one. It takes a not inconsiderable assurance to let slip the goading of the public's interest until the last thousand miles. But gigantic indeed is the mentality of Mr. Pyle, and better than most others does he know not only what the public wants but in what doses it can stand...
Another Harvard patron of the restaurant, Mr. Howard J. Sachs, was startled to have Terry call him by name and say: "Let me see Sachs, Howard J. middle name Joseph. There were four Sachs, Paul 1900, Arthur 1901, Walter 1904, and Howard J. 1911--Right...