Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoker was an orgy. The smalltown boys had plenty of liquor on their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...membership and financial records until the sidewalk was white with torn paper. With the headquarters in ruins, the wreckers moved two doors down the street to a striker's grocery store, tossed out its contents, departed into the darkness-before-dawn, leaving this sign: WE HAVE QUIT YOUR DAMN UNION In their underclothes, National Guardsmen rushed up just in time to arrest the no-longer snoring strikers and lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union...
...operated Bemberg and Glantztoff rayon plants in Elizabethton, Tenn. The A. F. of L. was organizing there to consolidate the first strike's gains when five workers were discharged. The company said they were drunk. But they were also members of the new union, so 25 other employes quit their posts in protest. More followed and before the operators could realize what had happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous," urged strikers "to make a real strike out of it." Complaint had been made...
Life. Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week...
...across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...