Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nervous University policeman intervened at this point, enjoined the student from hosing, and lifted his bursar's card as a warning to the mob not to let the antics get out of hand...
...Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
Lockout. In Trenton, N.J., the state supreme court, dismissing Mrs. Lillian Brown's divorce suit, ruled that since she had changed the lock on the door and refused to let her husband in the house, she could scarcely complain that he had deserted...
...crops still on hand, had been doing its best to move it out of storage and to the Gulf ports in the hope of increasing export. But there was a limit on how fast it could be moved. This week, the Association of American Railroads, unwilling to let its cars get tied up with orphan wheat, embargoed all shipments which did not have storage space reserved in advance...
Pray for Grace. Both the CCC and most farmers had been counting on Congress to authorize emergency storage. But it appeared that the 81st Congress, like its predecessor, would not do anything in time to be of much help. The House had passed a conference bill which would let the CCC build more storage facilities, but last week the Senate turned it down, ostensibly on a technicality. (Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas charged it was torpedoed by private grain storage interests...