Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon H. R. H. had won 5,000 pesos, gradually rolled his winnings up to 27,000 pesos, then rolled them down again to 420 pesos when he quit at 5:30 a. m. Thus in two hours H. R. H. had netted $50.40, about 4% on his original investment...
...Leon! Trotzky's history of the Russian Revolution . . . was to have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands...
...Federal Farm Board last week was passed its final stack of chips to play the wheat and cotton markets. Congress voted it $100,000,000-last of its original $500,000,000 allowance-with the implication that it must make good on its stabilization program or quit...
...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
...pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall and sparse; steady, piercing eyes; a warm, friendly handclasp for everyone; speech homely and Biblical ; a proud rumble...