Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round hyar in de sun and shade and yo' soul gits twice as weary. Take a job er work, and you wear cawns in yo' hands. Th'ow yo' shoes under some woman's bed, and cawns come on yo' weary soul. Quit yo' work, and you gits de all-overs. quit yo' woman, and you gits de down-yonders. Hit's all one and de same, John Henry. So git yo' hat and keep amovin', son, 'cause hit ain't no rest for de weary...
...nurse, many for playmates, went to their homes, churches, picnics, funerals. He received a degree from the University of California in 1917; when the War broke out he went soldiering, stayed in the Army till 1920. Then he worked on newspapers in Atlanta, New Orleans. Four years ago he quit work to write. His second published story, Child of God, won the O. Henry Memorial Award...
Year and a half ago the proprietors of London's venerable Saturday Review (presumably backed by Lord Beaverbrook) ordered the editor to support the Beaverbrook-Rothermere plan of Free Trade within the Empire (TIME, March 3, 1930). The editor refused, quit, took practically his whole staff with him and founded The Week End Review. The Saturday Review never recovered. Last week it announced its acquisition by the virile Conservative Spectator. Founded 76 years ago by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace...
...longer cruising range, and Herndon & Pangborn could take turns at the controls whereas Pilot Post was obliged to fly without relief. They gained time by cutting short their stops, but unscheduled landings put the Miss Veedol about a day behind the Winnie Mae when she quit the race at Khabarovsk, Siberia...
...Associated Silk Workers, had also voted to strike for practically the same demands as the National Textile Workers. Last week the A. F. of L. organizers watched the Communist walkout closely, advanced their own strike date to this week when 10,000 more Paterson silk workers are expected to quit...