Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation, the President several times repeated that he would call no special session of the Senate or House of Representatives. But, back in Washington, it behooved him last week to let the politicians come and tell him he was right...
...didn't I, good enough?" Dullards sniggered, smart alecks frowned, Teacher Carroll made her face look stern. "You come with me, William Albertson, right now," said she. Out in the hall she seized William Albertson, shook his slouching shoulders with vigor. William Albertson, ruffled and ashamed, said "Let me go"; then with his fist he bashed Teacher Carroll's nose. When she screamed with pain and rage, teachers and pupils rushed into the hallway. Soon five policemen in blue coats ran through the door, the children ran back into their classrooms to sit primly at their desks, William...
...time, as he analyzes his companions, and passes learned professors in the yard, his humility may drive him to his interests already established and further into himself; or on the other hand, his pretended superiority may settle into an insulation against all that is best in Harvard. Don't let it happen...
...journal followed the article with a letter to Artist Jerdano-witsch, requesting a short biography, a picture. Novelist Smith obliged. He let his beard grow Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
...then frame their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange and black. . . ." Decorum. Precise advice: "Don't worry. Relax, settle back and enjoy life. If there's any worrying to be done let the pilot do it: that's what he's hired for. . . . Take the turns naturally with the plane. Don't try to hold the lower wing with the muscles of the abdomen- it's unfair to yourself and an unjust criticism of the pilot...