Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...butcher shop, Marie Drazdorf, maid-of-all-work, paid not the slightest heed to the growing procession. She must get the shutters hung up and the doorstep scrubbed before suppertime. Then there would be coals to carry, and the dishes, the pots, the. . . Ach! Will busybodies never let a woman finish her work? What would this fat burgomaster be looking at her for? "Good evening, Mr. Burgomaster." ... Eh ? He was bowing? The burgomaster bowing at Marie Drazdorf, the butcher's drudge girl? At Marie Drazdorf, with a five-year-old son and a man too poor to marry...
...church without the Holy Ghost is like an automobile without gasoline. Oh, Lord, let there be an outpouring of the Holy Ghost...
Thereafter, during their meetings, doctors rode up and down Palmer House elevators without let. Attendants who padded outside the hotel's Red Lacquer Room where the doctors met, might have been scandalized by the medical damnation that sounded through the doors. They knew that some of the conferring doctors were famed?Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, Dr. William James Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. They did not know that the emphatic doctors were enjoying themselves, giving a sound thrashing to other members of their profession. The doctors knew that their advice was good; they knew too that...
...collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week, one C. E. Miller let it be known that in some white gypsum hills near Estelline, Tex., he had found a colony of extraordinary creatures, captured one and made...
...destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more...