Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of "nagging" letters from various reformers moved Mr. Andrews to write a letter to President Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. scouting the drugstore concoction as unpalatable and frankly begging "people"-i. e. the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League-to "quit making so much disturbance about little matters and assist the government in accomplishing some big matters...
Senhor Mello Franco, distraught, took emotional leave of each of his Council colleagues, quit the scene...
Neither Spain nor Brazil can actually quit the League without giving two years' notice. League partisans opined that even should notice be given, the next two years would provide opportunities for smoothing Latin pride, restoring the two nations to membership. Then suddenly came the news. Brazil gave formal notice of withdrawal. Harsh words followed. The Americas were turning from the League! Asia would soon turn away! For the League, was there more than a mere European future...
...invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig, to decide to quit picayune political hacking and try working with his big hands...
...father and George and Jeff, brothers, are delighted, even if Walt does hammer all around his nailheads and sit on a rafter reading Homer and Aeschylus at lunch hour. He has "quit loafing." But the morning comes when he is late for breakfast and they find him sitting up in bed, the floor strewn with loose papers, writing again. They guess he is hopeless...