Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Brown gave F. S. Holmes '31 who made the trip to Red Top as cox of the combination boat a tryout in the stern of the jayvee shell in the afternoon and said he intended to let him handle the tiller in the University boat tomorrow...
Senator Couzens of Michigan inadvertently let out a Senate secret when he asked why the Rules Committee did not call Senators who had left the executive session to telephone Mr. Lenroot for promptings on how best to meet the attack against...
...Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies. Correspondents in Rome learned other more practical reasons for the new prohibition. After two years of competing in these strange international...
...Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM...
...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...