Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alert President Roosevelt bought for $10,000,000* from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt's overtures.† "Oh, Mr. President," cried Attorney General Philander Chase Knox, "do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality...
...Russian for a long time, then posed as a German, finally coming out a Lithuanian." Of himself Pilsudski said, modestly: "I walked the floor the entire night after hearing of the Lithuanian mobilization, dreading the horrors of war and fearing on the other hand to let my people suffer invasion through delaying military action. Finally, I decided to put the entire matter into the hands of the League of Nations." Meanwhile, at Kovno, Lithuanian capital, Premier Valdemaras told newsgatherers that Polish troops were menacing Lithuania with "intimidatory and provocative actions." He added, nervously: "This cannot go on forever...
...ever knew. He has charm, personality, strength, a sense of humor. He is a genius! He is so wonderful that every other man you meet after you have seen him seems flat and dull!" Artist Christy, fired by his wife to enthusiasm, cried: "Mussolini is perfect. ... He let us do anything we wanted-anything. ... I could go in for a sitting feeling pretty low. One look at him and I was filled with enthusiasm. He radiates power, and you catch some of it from him!" Calm, Artist Christy announced that he would at once put on view at his apartment...
...exclaimed, 'Why, his old mother used to work for me and he has a fine of $1000 hanging over him and can't pay it.' Ned McLean said: 'Albert, I'll give $500 and you give $500 and we will pay his fine.' The President spoke up: 'Don't let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,' and the game went...
...many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid...