Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have only received a few copies on my subscription. Let me know what I owe for them...
There is a depraved note throughout the volume. Cleopatra writes, "let not my enemies, therefore, condemn me too readily. Perhaps, they, too, if their sense of the futility of life were as keen as mine, would seek forgetfulness in a like orgy of pleasures. My conduct is nothing more than a gesture of angry defiance flung into the face of the gods. I can never forgive them for making me mortal while reserving immortality for themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself...
...Some method," he said, "ought to be found for arousing this large group who are 'asleep in Jesus.' . . . There is not much consolation in taking in a large number of new members at the front door and letting out an equal number at the back door." Let there be a campaign against indifference "without the thought of raising money...
...Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going to let...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...