Word: forsook
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Letters from Tatty and Sally Bagby helped Mrs. Spaatz to fill in the picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
...Corwin forsook his $2,000-a-week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
Donaldson--who had a wide reputation in the mid-west, as a concert pianist before he forsook the ivories for amperes and flag hoists in Communications--was deluged at the end of his performance with requests for his autograph in addition to prolonged applause...
...coffee and doughnuts-and many other things-the soldiers can bless a handsome, energetic couple from Stamford, Conn., Mr. & Mrs. William Edwards Stevenson, known to generals and privates alike as Bill and Bumpy. Bill is Red Cross delegate (manager) to North Africa. When Bill forsook his profitable Manhattan law practice for the Red Cross 15 months ago, his wife Eleanor joined up as a Red Cross worker herself, wangled her way somehow to Algiers...
...tour here at Harvard, I have been confronted with every kind of a problem from the anxious twitchings of an expectant father popping into the office at regular five minute intervals for news of "that phone call," to the sad lament of a jilted romeo whose best girl forsook his unpredictable Navy Blue Baker for the consistent khaki of an Army Officer. Because I have lent a patient ear, and have even, upon request, given my Yeomanly advice, I have heard myself referred to on occasion as "Mr. Anthony," Concerning this last tribute, of which I must protest my unworthiness...