Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace among our peoples let men know we serve the Lord...
...John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
...business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.' To me it is truly great music, and certainly it is the music that best expresses us moderns...
...your little boy calls your neighbor a naughty name, you can spank the urchin, wash out his mouth with soap and water and not let him ride his bicycle for a week. That usually pacifies the neighbor. But if you run a newspaper and some cub reporter decorates a story with opprobrious epithets, either invented by himself or repeated after a third person, you are, if the epithets get published, responsible for their accuracy to the person described by them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have...