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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maryland's Palmisano: ". . . The Prohibition administration has sanctioned the blackjacking of citizens. ... I say, let us eliminate the criminals who are employed to enforce this Volstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Representative Debate | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Will Dr. Willis be equally fair and withdraw his prophecies and let us pursue pur way in peace ? And last of all, will the insurance companies be as magnanimous in reducing rates as they were generous in raising them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science's Business | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note, of which this was to be the purport: "Because, you see, I love you." In the meantime, the rescued lady would be taken to a hospital, examined by a physician and let loose to an admiring world. After a day or two, there could be an advertisement in the papers saying: "Mlle. Roseray, now completely recovered from her recent indisposition, is dancing nightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wet | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...reporters a full day to write a florid account of the event for Monday's packets, Mlle. Roseray waded into a small and shallow Central Park pond, splashed. A man dashed, fully garbed, toward the floundering female, who struggled away from him through the broken ice. "Mister, Mister, let me alone," she cried, but eventually permitted herself to be taken to the Lexington Avenue Hospital. Here, Mlle. Roseray was treated by a Dr. Martin J. Blank, who, despite his name, was no party to the plot; the man was put to bed so as to recover from a severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wet | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily Gang Leader warily under his coat, deposited him in a sack, then put the sack in a truck leaving a back entrance of Madison Square Garden, to avoid porters instructed to let no dog leave the building without properly identified escort. When Reginald M. Lewis, owner of Warily Gang Leader and Talavera Margaret, returned, the kennel was bare. His loss was approximately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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