Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downtown merchants, the working conditions of the automobile workers of this city is a national scandal. . . . Mr. Mayor, you see to it that the law is properly enforced. . . . Give us our rights and we'll quit sitting down. You'll find out we're at least as smart as a jackass. We know even a mule has sense enough to sit down when he's overworked. . . . Henry Ford, you can't stop your workers from joining the union. . . . The best thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your...
...clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips and five chosen by lot for each polling place. By entering plenty of dummy candidates one side could, by the law of chance, practically exclude opposing factions from the important job of counting votes. Then the dummy candidates could quit the race...
Clarence Cook Little's grandfather was James Lovell Little, a dominating Massachusetts businessman who made Father James Lovell Jr. quit studying architecture at Harvard and go into business...
...that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President got the Solicitor General to rule that it would not, if the stock were, sold. The 48-year-old Irishman gave in, took the job on condition that he may quit as soon as it is running smoothly...
...author of a book of West Indian dialect poems about his native Jamaica. Claude McKay went to Tuskegee Institute, switched to Kansas State Agricultural College, quit to become a dining-car waiter. In 1918 tiny, roaring Frank Harris certified him a genius. More encouragement came from Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. McKay went to London to meet Shaw, who reminded him of "an evergreen plant grown indoors...an antelope...chinaware," Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like...