Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions: "Did you vote for President Roosevelt in 1932?" "Yes." "Did you vote for him in 1936?" "Yes." "If he is nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo...
Their first musicomedy was the Columbia Varsity Show of 1920 written in Rodger's freshman year. Soon after Rodgers quit Columbia, and for five years the two of them plugged along, getting a few shots at Broadway, but no lucky ones. Then in 1925 the Theatre Guild, wanting some tapestries for its new theatre and a chance to give its understudies a workout, decided to put on an informal little revue, engaged Rodgers to write the music. Hart came in on the lyrics. The show, under the title of the Garrick Gaities, opened...
...Pigs); ended it in bitterness in 1935 when Kallet backed a strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research. Inc. Kallet resigned as C. R. secretary, started Consumers Union of United States, Inc., aided by other C. R. experts who had been fired or quit. Since May 1936, when C. U. published its first bulletin, it has grown fast, now claims 60,000 members, of whom 47,000 pay the full membership fee of $3 a year. (There is limited membership for $1.) C. R.'s has stayed close to 60,000 since...
...know myself," he wrote exuberantly to his older brother, "I can't fail." Meanwhile he thought he and his brother ought to be more respectful to their mother, should quit snubbing their kid brother Brooks ("we ought to try our hardest to tolerate the child'') and that his own allowance should be increased...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...