Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this will let you know that I do not want it any longer for it will suit those blue-bellied Yankees of the industrial East better than it does the Farmers of the West...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
...event seems to have been peculiarly unfortunate for the Russian government which seems to be placed between the Scylla of popular criticism at home and the Gharibdis of general disfavor abroad. To let the matter drop would probably not be satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action...
Take that great political issue of whether or not the police commissioner's nose was punched. This was the issue and the successful candidate's handling of it was largely responsible for his victory. But let us not be misled into thinking that this was the only cause. At the bottom of many political victories is the well-organized machine. And this too will not be seen in Washington. The machine, depending on the size of the candidate's campaign contributions and on the skill with which he handles the patronage in his district, is the broad foundation stone...
...foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...