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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Judge Elbert H. Gary attached to prohibition memorials was only exceeded by the frequency with which he heard envy-rousing reports of the grandly stocked cellar of the grand red house on Fifth Ave. which the Judge occupies. Let the Judge deny the reports or quit signing memorials, was Senator Bruce's suggestion. The fame of Senator Bruce is likely to increase as the prohibition issue becomes more acute. He is no ordinary politician. For years he stood aloof from politics, until in 1922 the Maryland Democrats begged him to accept the seat in the Senate which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Pre-War Moves | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...crowd about the drug store placed their watches in their pockets. They knew what would happen now. So did I. Leaving my banana soda I went to look at the performance. It was always the same. One after another of the men quit his station by the steps to follow Cartrack. So a long file of solemn marchers were soon in her wake. Main Street in Charmington became for a few minutes a primrose path to an everlasting bonfire, and the bon fire was the rage of Cartrack, damned by religion, damned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

Smiling enigmatically, he refused to affirm or deny rumors that he is about to petition the League of Nations to permit his father to quit Holland for Italy. Allegedly Wilhelm II desires this change of residence on account of the delicate health of "the Empress Hermine," as his consort is now referred to at Doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Milan | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

They were strikers. Until a few weeks before they had got their living in the Botany Worsted Mills over behind the wall. When they quit work the usual endless controversy had begun about better living conditions, about more pay. It was not very lucrative to work in the Botany Worsted Mills of Passaic, N. J. Some workers got $9 a week. More experienced ones got $15. The strike had been coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Passaic | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute are thus succored. Charlatans tear up the tickets in disgust, soon quit their game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Shrewd | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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