Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let Mr. Borah add: 'Herbert, so far you have ignored this question. If you do not immediately answer it "yes" or "no," the righteous wrath of vast multitudes of voters will wax hot against you and, like a great conflagration, consume you and your vaulting ambition on the floor of the Kansas City convention.' [Laughter...
...Hoover's effort to obtain a political delegation from the Vice President's Blue Heaven let us be as indifferent as the backwoodsman who, when urged to run to his cabin where a panther was fighting his mother-in-law, retorted, 'Why should I care what happens to a panther?' [Laughter...
...into what one knows not, will move the Vagabond to pursue his search of the things which one rendered unto the mind. In fact, about the only thing which will move him is the 1 o'clock to New York, and he advises all his readers to let this beneficent influence effect them...
...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...
...same time praise for the issue as a whole far out-weighs any slight blame incurred by a few mediocre attempts at humour. If one feels the slightest tingle of the spring tickling the soles of one's feet or the whims of one's mind, then let him haste to make acquaintance with Lampy in his new spring jacket...