Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recovered from the stage fright he suffered when given Walter Hagen as a playing partner in the National Open, drubbed John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...
...sons were united though they scattered to the ends of Europe for the first international banking concern. Probably they came from their magnificent palaces to see Amschel the Younger, head of the House, and to consult the aged Gudula, Die Uralte, an illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...
...Reconstruction 1870's, Joel O. Cheek and J. Will Neal quit their jobs to sell coffee for themselves. The Maxwell House (Hotel), now tattered, was just opened at Nashville. Young Mr. Cheek persuaded the managers to use his coffee and when Maxwell House guests demanded the blend, he used the hotel's name as his trademark...
...Stair, although he began reporting when he was only 14 and kept at it until he was 30, quit newspaper work for the theatre. He wrote a play and produced it himself. The play succeeded. He was lucky. Thereafter he stayed in amusements; organized the Stair & Hamlin group of 18 theatres. When he sold out in 1916 he was reputedly the richest theatrical man in the U. S.?with...
...motor bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything...