Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Goaded by this blasphemy beyond endurance, a local Frankfurt clergyman leaped up from his balcony seat signaled to the gallery. There parishioners and sympathizers sat in cheapest seats with stench and tear bombs ready. At the signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs...
...almost too well done. We become satiated with an excess of splendor. Let these ladies see to their makeup. . . . How it is to be cut down I cannot imagine. ... I ... I have seen ... I ... I ..." -St. John Ervine, in the World...
With these perfervid paeans the drama-reviewers of Manhattan let it be known that they had caught Whoopee, a cute little musical show, starring Eddie Cantor and exposing to view large portions of Gladys Glad, Olive Brady, and the like...
...Let there be light," says the light company; and wiry candles glitter in all the cities of the world, bulbs of light blossom in the street, lights are in the houses, there is gaiety behind bright windows and darkness, enormous, hungry and patient, is compelled to crouch under the ocean or in the corners of closets. All this is expensive and Lawrence F. Jones, a radio dealer, decided that the Brooklyn Edison Co. had charged him too much for lighting his shop. Accordingly, he refused to pay their bill...
Dick followed Clarence about. But Clarence would not let Dick follow him to his eighth grade class in a Marshall County rural school. Dick stayed at home and grew big and fat. Poll came out on his flat, white head; little knobs grew into shiny, short, down-curving horns...