Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only among non-fliers but in conversation with experienced aviators. At the recent Washington dinner to the French good-will fliers, Costes and Lebrix, Colonel Lindbergh's flights over Central and South American jungles were the subject of conversation, and it was the consensus that he should quit that sort of thing...
...JOHN HAS QUIT HIS DRINKING And is like himself once more, And the world is just a paradise With such happiness in store...
...Russelton, Pa., they burned two houses belonging to the Republic Iron & Steel Co. That was to get even with one Joe Baldi ("that dirty louse"), who had quit the strike...
James J. Walker, New York's musical-comedy mayor, abused his stomach. When he returned from his visit to Europe last summer (TIME, Oct. 10), he admitted that he would have to quit drinking alcohol for a while. New Yorkers smiled understandingly. Many a New York stomach has been ruined without going to Europe...
...whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...