Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia last week Presbyterian women stoutly let it be known that they didn't want to keep silence. Hitherto in Presbyterian councils and assemblies only male voices had been heard. Why not the mellifluence of female voices? Hitherto from Presbyterian pulpits only male voices had preached the Gospel, pointed the moral. Why not have female ministers? Prim reactionary Presbyterians shuddered at the thought that the Princeton or Auburn Theological Seminary might become coeducational. Advanced non-alarmist thinkers like Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, said: "I welcome the proposal . . . that women be given an equal...
...leeway time allowance for distribution was eliminated. Shipment was made by express instead of freight at additional cost of $12,000. Wholesalers were admitted to the secret and enjoined to secrecy at the moment of shipment. Not until three days before the Cosmopolitan reached newsstands was the truth let out. Then, because other magazines were beginning to get publicity by boasting of similar features to come, Editor Long announced that the leading article of the April Cosmopolitan was "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency," by Calvin Coolidge. Thus were the Coolidge record for silence, and the Coolidge respect...
...crowds cheered Chaliapin again last week, as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, a benefit performance which made $7,500 for his Sir Wilfred Grenfell's medi cal mission in Labrador. Lest his audiences should fail to count themselves as blessed, the Great One let it be known that next year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder...
...defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle of the Deep combines both...
...development of General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make it himself and he was not content to let abler business men make...