Word: lets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...owners chomped their breakfast bacon and kippers contentedly. The coal strike they believed was cracking. Premier Baldwin, sometimes inclined to be sentimental toward the miners, was away "water-curing" at Aix-les-Bains. When the Times was brought in by many a butler last week, many a mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough. A little loud, perhaps...
...What should we say of a man who would undertake to make Shakespeare acceptable to the masses by rewriting him in the language of a New York east-sider. For 'To be, or not to be: that is the question,' let...
...familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
...therefrom. One of these quotations appears .twice, being the thought most prominent in the lady's mind: "It is motherhood, not wifehood, that matters." She was an early feminist, having determined upon motherhood and compacted "earnestly" with her lover, a Baron, who drowned returning from Paris in 1763. "Let every woman be a mistress," she wrote, and projected a book on this theme, setting forth the naturalness of parenthood, the superiority of "naturals," the state's duty and the end of bawdry through free love...
Most amazing was her attitude towards her boy, Robert, and through him, towards society. She marked his birthdays as day of special grace for her. She let him wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that...