Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kicked into contortions-do not litter a rose garden. One dozen men were in this attic room; they had lived there for three weeks; they needed haircuts. One night last week, eleven of them were trying to sleep; the other one played a phonograph malignantly, said he would never let them go to sleep unless they came to a decision...
...visited upon proprietors, will fall on my unhappy head alone. As the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, I am a proprietary Crusoe stranded in a sea of syndicates. I verily believe that I am the only 'sole proprietor' of a newspaper in the whole Metropolitan area. . . . "Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that, if the peccadillos of the lowly are covered by the tattered garment of obscurity...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...
...Girls Wanted-"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever...
...suggestion for theological seminaries is this: let young gospelers spend a year learning, as young medics learn, in hospitals, asylums and almshouses, to practice the application of their beliefs upon the sick and troubled.* For medical schools: courses in professional ethics. Besides the lessons learned from the silent examples of fine doctors, let there be instruction in the inconsistencies of the Hippocratic oath, in the unwritten laws on fees, contract practice, birth control, state medicine, abortion, advertising, competition...