Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones has been known outside of Texas at least since 1917, when he worked with the Red Cross in Washington and Paris. But not until 1924, when he stepped forward to bear the brunt of the $220,000 convention deficit, was his importance widely appreciated. They at once let him have charge of National Democratic finances and then, last week, when the 1928 convention was being noisily auctioned in the Mayflower Hotel at Washington, they let Mr. Jones have his way. He happily produced his own certified check for $200,000 as Houston's bid. It led on all five...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska began urging a constitutional amendment to let the peoples' voice be heard afresh, in Congress and in the White House, without anachronistic delay. Thrice the Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall...
...Christopher, dies of disease. Were it not doubly impertinent to offer advice to an author whose works are so obviously satisfying to himself, some brash but discerning critic might paraphrase one of Author Ford's titles, saying to him: "The purpose of writing is to express, not to conceal; let us have no more charades...
...Let a decent orchestra play your jazz tunes and you will see that there is no originality in them," he continued. Sir Thomas then said that jazz was being played in "England even more than in America. "Why they dance to it afternoon and evening and they practice mornings," he added...
...became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving his solution to the gigantic crossword puzzle...