Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...microphone: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the great Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible...
...first Sunday of each month hereafter, said the cards, let any person call the Delia Vecchia garage and a Delia Vecchia cab will promptly call for him and take him, free of charge, to "the first mass only...
...what type of man would most attract such a young woman (remember, she is earnest, honest)? Well, how about a mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might...
...main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them go, and they work out their own destiny. I simply pull the strings. Soon, the first thing I know, I have another book ready for my publishers. It's great fun, really...
...three cases considered in Conflicts are 1) the actions of a high-minded English widow when she found that the only way she could save a young gambler from suicide was to let him believe her a prostitute; 2) the suppressed tragedy of a wealthy bourgeois whose sufferings from gallstones was eclipsed by circumstantial evidence that his young daughter was promiscuous; 3) the tragedy of sex perversion in a brilliant professor, as climaxed and discovered by his most ardent disciple...