Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let's do the Charleston!" cried General Pershing, and they hopped about together...
...government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement to Miss Butterfly expected hourly. Please inform parents...
...Contents. When he arrived in Manhattan, Colonel Isham re fused to divulge the price he had paid for the contents of his suit case. He admitted that to secure them had been difficult because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure...
...agreed to do so. Colonel Isham, chattering with excitement, displayed in an alley between boxes of steel, not ebony, the placid sentimentalities of two charming people. In this strange place he read aloud Boswell's "Read this in your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched her husband chasing every young woman he met, who heard true rumors about his three bastards, wrote back briefly, beautifully, to tell Jimmy...
...grown up to them. When Roddy said, "I love you," Judith forgot his warning. When he met her the next day he said, "I thought that was what you wanted: what you were asking for. . . . I'm sorry, I apologize. I . . . ." She said good-by to Roddy and let Martin think she would marry him. Then she broke her engagement and went to France, whither Julian followed her to ask her to be his mistress. This, too, was a dusty answer to what she desired. In England she went to meet Jennifer again, but Jennifer, always an unsure idol...