Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just let any of our Boston women catch some man "swan upping" in our parks! ... Of course at Maidenhead I was helpless, except that my blood boiled. Shame on you, TIME, for not denouncing "swan upping"! MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN...
...interesting. I was surprised to learn that such intelligent and progressive people still do such apparently silly things, tho, of course, I had heard that the British were, or seemed ta be, quite fond of things ceremonious and ritualistic. However, I won't laugh at them now. First, let British readers suggest some things which U. S. people (I know of no other adequate term for inhabitants of U.S.A., and always hope TIME will coin one) do which seem equally as foolish to the British. Of course Prohibition will be one, but there must be others...
Winnie Winkle the Bread Winner, syndicated comic-strip heroine by Cartoonist Martin Branner, has been on a camping trip. One day, last fortnight, a snake appeared in camp. Her companion yelled: "Don't let that snake get away. One of you pick up a stick or a stone and kill it!" Near the snake was a stick. The last picture showed Winnie waving the snake wildly above her head, the companion screaming: "EEEEEEK! She picked up the SNAKE to hit the STICK with...
...office of the Kansas City Times. But readers saw no snake when the strip was published in the Times. In place of the snake appeared a toad, hurriedly scratched in. In place of the stick was a rock. In place of the blurbs were other blurbs: "Don't let that toad get away. One of you pick up a rock or something and kill it! . . . EEEEEEK! She picked up the TOAD to hit the ROCK with...
...Percy C. Burton of the London Press Exchange gave a voice to the business of Peace. His suggestion: let the League of Nations spend $10,000,000 advertising itself. Shouted he: "I accuse the League of Nations of stupidity in hiding its light under a bushel and of profoundly misunderstanding the psychology of the masses of mankind in failing to take advantage of the magnificent opportunities which it has of popularizing its doings...