Word: lets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...made no mention of the economic storms building up in Europe, but Treasury Secretary John Snyder was already heavily engaged on the foreign front, trying to work out a way of saving Britain's dwindling dollar reserves (see INTERNATIONAL) . Back on Capitol Hill, Maryland's Millard Tydings let it be known last week that his Senate Armed Services Committee had presidential permission to whack almost a billion dollars out of the armed forces' budget...
...Murphy began, Stryker leaned back and closed his eyes, trying hard to look bored. Before long he was sitting forward, listening closely. "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion," Murphy began quietly. "You can't say 'I don't like the guy, I don't like the way he combs his hair, and I wouldn't believe him on a stack of Bibles.' You have to apply reason...
...Let us suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face," said Murphy. "We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face...
...worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
They usually did. Although Mencken tore great holes in the fabric of U.S. manners & morals, he almost always let in more air than light. His job, at a time when the job needed doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain...