Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let the disgusting bits of news alone-even if they are news. Women read TIME and don't you think we want to try to keep women from being so doggoned sophisticated and hard-boiled and modern ? Let's keep them on the pedestal we used to have 'em on. Sophistication doesn't be- come women, now does it? Innocence does...
Harry Houdini, prestidigitator, handcuff king, foe of charlatan spiritists: "As I was about to perform my 'Chinese water-cell trick'* on the stage of the Capitol Theatre at Albany, N. Y., faulty stage tackle let the ponderous wood-and-iron stock fall upon my left foot, crushing it. Though my supple feet and ankles constitute great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked...
...week--ends, and gives up studying for a brief period, only to return to Hanover physically and mentally exhausted. No harm done. Perhaps not. But for the good of the undergraduate body, it might not be a had idea if the evening was spent betwixt sleeping and intellectual activity. Let the freshmen attend the rally they have never blundered through one as yet. But let the rest of the college enjoy the evening they can save their laughter to better advantage for the next week end." The Dartmouth...
...Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...
...Stillman's girl, 'Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...