Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adam Bell tramped toward the gates to the Columbine property. Deputy Sheriff Lou Beynon of Weld County met them and urged them to turn back. He pointed out that the 20 State Police under Mr. Scherf were unwilling but ready to repel trespassers with gunfire. "Come on, boys, let's go!" cried Adam Bell. The "boys" went?toward the Columbine gates...
...reconstitute his or her own individuality. Mr. Adams points out that to the student there comes a summer respite from school and a winter respite from home; to the bricklayer there comes a Saturday afternoon; to the professor, a sabbatical year; to the husband....no release, world-without-let-up.. for wives and the poor are always with...
...tangled up in superlatives. Not since "Merry Merry" has there been such intelligent musical show--and both entertainments prove ably that dumbness and stupidity are not necessarily essential to the song-and-dance carnival. "Peggy Ann" is even satirical and slightly acid in places but don't let that bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From that point on there is rhyme...
...days that immediately followed the World War, when nations could either have their peace, conferences or let them alone, seem to be gone forever. Nowadays there must not only be a regurgitation by each of the delegates, speaking from his home bureau and placing the blame for the failure of the conference on his colleague, but there must also be preliminary conferences. Of this nature is the Preparatory Disarmament Conference which meets this week at Geneva. One would think that the ushering in of the conference itself would be sufficiently covered by this preliminary...
...same old gentleman (as well as many another person) entered the new Graybar Building in Manhattan. Having business upon the 16th floor, he enquired for the stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally...