Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...donkey? They were walking along a roadside when a passerby said, "It's too bad to have that little boy walking, so he was put on the donkey. Soon another passerby exclaimed that he considered it atrocious that an able-bodied boy should ride and let an old man walk. So the old man was ensconced on the beast with the boy. A short distance further on a passerby said quite indignantly that it was cruel for the poor animal to have such a load. So the man and the boy got down and carried the donkey...
...Let us assemble a quorum; many a missing Senator would like to hear Senator Ashurst; perhaps we can get some business done," suggested Senator Neely of West Virginia in effect. So an order was adopted, authorizing Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry* to arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been...
...public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats...
...Paris, one Gaston Orpholan, billiardist, climbed to the second platform of the Eiffel Tower and shouted at the city that his wife would not let him play billiards. Therefore he was going to jump to his death. For five hours policemen begged him not to do so; he demanded that his wife come. She did. Then he jumped...
...national amateur squash racquets tournament. Mr. Dixon was defending his title. The match was hotly contested but as it progressed spectators realized that Mr. Baker would soon be the new champion. What seemed to be the last point was played; Mr. Baker seemed to have won it. "Let!" called the referee, thereby giving Mr. Dixon an opportunity to replay the point. The falling title-holder smiled; displayed excellent sportsmanship by crying, "No let!" rushed across the court to congratulate his conqueror...