Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME staff. And furthermore it did not cost R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1?. TIME, proud of its new printer, was eager to introduce its 180,000 subscribers & newsstand buyers to the potent organization that prints the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the telephone book of many a U. S. city--and TIME. Let Dissenter Malcolm reread the advertisement; he will see that it did carry "its legitimate and proper signature." The advertisement was signed, thus...
...reader opens the latest issue of the Lampoon in his customary mood of funmaking, the content of the paper is harmlessness itself. If there be any who are not acquainted with the traditional undergraduate attitude, they may be shocked to find the Lampoon, far from grateful for the manna let fall by heaven in the lean weeks between Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day, snarling at the generous hand. The consequences of such misinterpretation would not, however, be great. The only possible tragedy resulting would be that of one who took seriously what is clearly humor...
Frances N. Newman (authoress of The Hard-Boiled Virgin*) pleaded for mercy for a Negro named Henry Ford who robbed her apartment in Atlanta, Ga. Said she: "Please let him go, judge. He only got 17 cents in my apartment." Judge Virlyn B. Moore listened with compassion, then sen- tenced Negro Ford, who had two other robberies against him, to three years in jail...
Meek Mose. Prevalent opinions among the hordes that hurry to the theatre include the firm feeling that each Negro is a great actor. All you have to do is put a string of lines into his head, point out the stage and let him live the part. This theory, arising from the efficiency with which Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal...
...They are so favored by the kindly attention of wealthy and leading parishioners that their children enter the highest social life.' 11. They are often able to save money, especially when, 'through the kindness of financial leaders who are on their church boards,' they are let in on the ground floor on good investments. 12. The pension fund (Episcopal) will soon insure a comfortable income in old age. 13. 'The greatest joy of the ministry, however, has nothing to do with its financial compensations; it is the fact that it is his life work to make...