Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell you how pleased I am about your O. M. [Order of Merit]. Of course it in no way represents your services in this War, for, let me tell you in case you don't know it, you, more than any other man, living or dead, you almost alone, won this war. That is the bare truth, the whole truth...
...second: "My last day as Chief of the Imperial General Staff brings you very much to my mind and those glorious days when together, in rough and boisterous times, we fought for our country. I cannot therefore let the day die without a word of admiration for the part you then played and for the many kindnesses I received from...
...with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...
Then the volley of six rifles speaking as one sounded as the officer let his sword fall as the signal to fire. General Quijano dropped to the ground, his body convulsing. On orders from the officer, a soldier approached the quivering form and put the muzzle of his rifle against the general's head, pulled the trigger. Thus died General Quijano, brave to the last...
...Manhattan these past seasons; probably few better than this Enemy of the People. The play tells the story of a Norwegian doctor who found that the baths in his town were unsanitary and struggled desperately with the citizens, who felt it better for their individual bank account to let the germs flourish...