Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then had deliberately to be let down again in order to save what could be saved of an unexpected, difficult and trying situation...
...Pretty slick work," hailed one of the launch crew. "Better let us have your name...
...McCormick family of Chicago has easily furnished its fellow countrymen with its fair share of daily news. In fact the public is inclined to let the McCormicks off now, let them out of the headlines summa cum laude. The McCormicks are wealthy, accomplished, beneficent, but their special talents and proclivities are by now all cataloged. There is not much news left in them. Yet last week newsgatherers found it necessary to invade the McCormick privacy just once more. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had done a thing that is almost never done. She had sent her dapper secretary into the Manhattan terminal...
CRAIG'S WIFE-About a woman who wouldn't let her husband smoke a pipe in her parlor...
...summer long," the first chapter proceeds, "Bronson Alcott paced through Concord's placid loveliness, being Bronson Alcott still, still ready to let flow the wondrous volume of his stored inanity on any victim. . . . Louisa May Alcott was famous. Her bones ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase...