Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors of a college publication who are always relegated to the back of the yearbook picture. They did not have to worry about hands, feet or the bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket...
...good reasons for taking this course. If you are concentrating in Anthropology it is probably a good idea to have it behind you; and secondly, if you want to ease your program for the second half year it will turn the trick very nicely. Lest there be any misunderstanding let it be made clear that it is not an out and out snap course. It probably used to be; but Professor Hooton found that out, and it has been so stiffened that it is only a very simple course...
...Straton still doubts the veracity of newspaper reports on the subject, let him consider that he gave his address orally and did not read it. The newspaper men took it verbatim as he delivered it. Does Mr. Straton think his memory more accurate than these notes...
...statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...
...spring of 1898 Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...