Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of these blue laws in Michigan. True, we have. But let any official try to enforce 'em. Why, the mere attempt would put any man out of office! ... If the ministers can't keep their people in church without this tyrannical legislation, it's high time for them to resign. . . . What this country needs is not less but more amusement...
...Austen replied with frigid caution: "For myself and for the Government let me say that we share the regret that these large issues as to the composition of the Council should arise on this occasion and have to be discussed now. ... I do not think that the interests of peace and international understanding will be served by the members of individual governments saying what they would do or what they would not do at the forthcoming meeting of the great world council. I do not see how we will ever come to an agreement if each of us announces beforehand...
...Premier replied: "From France's rights, nothing has been taken by the compact. We can arm as much as we like without let or hindrance from the Locarno treaty...
...sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...