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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pouches under his eyes and his general run down appearance will not come to public notice. Just at present when the United States is being glutted with such pro-Prince propaganda as H. R. H.* I depend upon TIME to paint the truth, the whole truth. Now please let me apologize for "raking you over the coals." There are worse magazines than TIME - bunches of them! When I opened my "back mail" upon landing I found half a dozen magazines trying to boptlick up onto my doormat with "premium offers," like so many mongrel puppies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Staggering beneath a huge pine coffin, little brown men bore it through the streets of Tokyo last week, let it down at last with a thud on the doorstep of Premier Heijiro Wakatsuki's official residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gruesome Gift | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover of mankind was his second greatest role. He was too gentle, reasonable, humble to quarrel or criticize. Attacks upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Saint Darwin | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee is, will he or she please let me know? I'm tired...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...anyone who reads this is interested in Grace Hall let me explain who she is. I'll do it anyway. Grace is a little girl of thirteen who has already had many articles in the papers. Her mother lived in New Jersey. But do not think that she is any relation to the better murderers of that state. She is a poetess of the first water, having already received many prizes, including the Pulitzer (She is an American), the Harvard Advocate Conference Prize, and fifty dollars from the Fleischman Company for the following...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

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