Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still spend a pleasant hour between 11 and 12, by attending Professor Edgell's lecture on Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...
...Marxian remedy for poverty is a more equable distribution of the world's goods. But, the Neo-Malthusian replies, the least capable have the largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive...
...kind of private sanitorium. To Dr. Gehring for cure have gone, in the past 32 years, lawyers, doctors, merchant chiefs-victims of overwork. At Dr. Gehring's they found comfort. He would set them to digging potatoes, or planting green peas, or swimming. Or he would let them sit quietly on his Androscoggin porch, looking into the blank distance until after many passive days the White Mountains took form in the patients' minds. They would begin to notice the roads, the buildings, the fences, the farm animals. When once more they found themselves aware of the world, alert...
...young girl. I would not take a daughter of mine to it but if another man wants to take his, it is no affair of mine. Some plays are undeniably bad from all points of view, but if people are silly enough to go to see them, let them...
...former happening, which look us to the heights of expectant excitement only to let us down quite too suddenly after all was to see someone off on a trip to Europe. At this season of the year with the so-called spring fever attacking everyone, to put foot within an "ocean greyhound", a "floating metropolis" or what not is enough to cause even the most stolid to think twice before deciding definitely not to stow away. The writing of this little tribute to insanity and mental vagrancy is fairly definite proof that no such glorious prank was played...