Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arabian Nightmare is frankly a "fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters knew just where to laugh. The surprise of the performance was Helen Lowell. In the serious part of the wife in God Loves Us earlier this season she won praise. Now she comes prancing on to the stage in a comic swimming suit, her face plastered with cosmetic...
...could probably do "Hamlet" nearly as well as his adorers claim; and Ethel Barrymore might take to a juggling act and still leave the universe as a whole undisturbed. But when Al Jolson--the one and only--says, and actually takes the firs steps, that he is going to quit musical comedy for the serious drama, then is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party and for Pro Bono Publicae to write letters to the Times. Mr. Jolson seems to have no conception of the general fitness of things--nor the fact that...
Before being Harvard men we are supposed to be American gentlemen. The sporting traditions of America are inexorable on one point, one cannot quit under defeat. It's yellow. Furthermore a show of reseuiment springing from defeat is underbred and yellow...
...President accepted the invitation of Representative R. Walton Moore (Dem.) of Virginia to "quit work for the afternoon and go sightseeing in Virginia." Together with Mrs. Coolidge they ' quietly left the White House, motored south along the road which Henry Clay and John Randolph had traveled one early morning to fight a duel.* The Presidential party halted at the farmhouse which President Madison had occupied in 1814 when the British captured Washington and burned the White House. At Fairfax courthouse they looked upon the wills of George and Martha Washington, read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury...
...July 28-Cook quit. Four bad days for me. Took meals at Lerchenfeld...