Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smiling, the governess explained once more the nature of what had occurred. Still Michael was doubtful. "They will let me play just the same...
...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
...mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...
Inwardly, however, Miss Thompson and her peers were saying: "It just shows what you can write when you've got the big name and they let you cut loose. That is, if you've got the ability...
...dare you to let me speak from your station," Judge Rutherford had shouted at Mr. Aylesworth during the Radio Commission hearing...