Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...
...Jackson, Dragon Stephenson and two minor politicians put their heads together in 1923, found that they needed 10.000 votes to swing the coming gubernatorial primary, decided that control of Marion county's prosecuting office would give them the votes, offered Governor McCray (then in mail trouble) $10,000 to let them name the prosecutor. Also they promised Governor McCray that no jury in Indiana would convict him of any crime. Governor McCray refused...
...Berlin, last week, the Tagliche Rundschau, which often speaks for Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, thundered: ". . . Unpardonable distortion of the circumstances of Fraulein Cavell's death. . . . Let us hope that the British Government will find a way to suppress the film...
...much worry and anxiety would be saved at Harvard after every exam if the female relatives of each professor would combine to work a large tapestry with each student's name and grade on it. This could be hung in the front of the room and would both let the student know his fate sooner and relieve the section men of the difficulty of correcting the papers. But best of all, and most saving of energy and time, would be the practice of sending to applicants for admission a lace handkerchief with the last day of his residence at Cambridge...
...United States Lawn Tennis Association, for long the last stronghold of amateurism in its original unadulterated form, has finally let down the bars prohibiting tournaments open to both professionals and amateurs. No doubt the first effect will be to settle questions which tennis devotees have argued since Vincent Richards and Mile. Lenglen succumbed to the wiles of Mr. C. C. Pyle. Now the Yonkers star can match his skill with those virtuous members of the First Ten who do not accept rewards for playing, and it will be seen whether playing tennis for money has affected his ability. If Suzanne...