Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, while grand opera singing is good for her prestige, it is not essential to her financial happiness. Now she has decided to quit Chicago opera after she has completed her contract for the present season...
William E. Borah quit Idaho where he has been speech-making and handshaking, mounted a train for Washington. Before he left he telegraphed orders to "have Jester* brought back to the stables...
...light of the moon Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Texas, teed off at 12.40 a.m. to break the golf marathon record (257 holes) set a month ago by Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland. Morris quit at 7.50 that night after having traversed 290 holes (more than 16 full 18-hole rounds). He averaged 85 shots a round...
...Pope will never quit Rome," said the Temps, " if for no other reason than that Catholic dogma precludes it. The church is Catholic, Apostolic and Roman...
...that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...