Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputy Ernesto Hidalgo of Guanajuato. His valorous championship of the petition was greeted by cries of "Swine, you have taken Catholic bribes! Let him talk himself into the mud! Let's talk about the Dempsey-Tunney fight!" (News of this match was then being received over the radio...
...them laugh: 'I had entertained a governor of one of our largest states at my country place.* After seeing him about the grounds, I suggested: "Governor, would you like to walk up to the house for a little drink?" And the governor's reply was: "Walk, Hell! Let...
Anecdotal Climax: "Walk, Hell! Let...
...buying or leasing land that he finds his greatest difficulty. Realtors and mortgage underwriters dash at his office in Manhattan with flashing descriptions of their land values. Let Mr. Statler promise to build a hotel anywhere from Trenton to Tacoma. they will see that it is financed. They do not realize that he finances his new hotels from the operating profits of his old, and that, if he were to go to public financing, humanitarian that he is, he would want to be certain that not only were promoters prosperous and bondholders satisfied, but also that preferred shareholders received their...
...Let him tell it, in his own yellow manuscript: "Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...