Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Renown steamed toward Australia the Duke's Chief of Staff, the Earl of Cavan, sat down suddenly when the ship gave a lurch and refused to let details of his condition be radioed, though it was known that he took to his berth...
...could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below the Shavian autograph, "Could Birkenhead teach you no law?" then added, "Do let us have a little less of your perfection, My Dear...
...weary of Harvard complaints, severed athletic relations. The third time was last week when a hulking onetime Harvard footballer, one Wynant D. Hubbard, 21, was discovered to have needed money badly enough to forget he was supposed to be a gentleman. Needy Mr. Hubbard had, for a sum, let Liberty (weekly) sign his name to an article charging Princeton with "dirty football." Sadly, bitterly, needy Mr. Hubbard recited instances of scratched eyes, bruised noses, dislocated wrists, twisted knees, smashed ankles, wrenched shoulders, a broken leg, all wreaked upon unoffending Harvard players...
...Milner remarked that men have the ability to take a book and read three or four hours on a stretch, their only movement being to turn the pages. "No woman can do it," was her comment. "It is a purely masculine trait. Another thing, men like to be let alone when they are reading. Not that a 'Kipling' reader could be easily disturbed When I see a man reading 'Kipling' I know from experience that his mind is far from the Farnsworth Room...
...which appears in "Liberty" today is far from a decided benefit to the situation. Right now, the diplomatic thing for Princeton and Harvard to do is to politely ignore the charges that so indiscreet a person has impolitely made. Newspapers might show better judgement than they have and also let the matter quietly drop. As to why "Liberty" printed the article, there is but one conclusion...