Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount...
...tourists want to amuse themselves let them go to Paris, Vienna, Berlin or London, not to mention the other trans-Atlantic cities. We have no time for old-fashioned jazz or monotonous dancing girls. We do not want Italy to be like any sort of Paris...
...York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aviation. His active son Harry F. Guggenheim is good president there.** Last week he let it be known that he had sent a $480,000 gift to Chile. The only condition was that the money be applied to promote South American flying...
Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died...
...those present. In fact it was openly boasted by a member of a Class of 1928 that, not to mention three "Freshman Jubilees, he then counted four Junior Dances on his record. So why limit his glorious function to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. And above all let's keep the good old traditional title of "Junior Prom"; it means a lot to the little girl up from Toonerville. H. Bowen Wands...