Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with snowflakes bombarding his red whiskers. A year later Taft named him to the Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding and the curt Mr. Coolidge, had achieved...
...said unhappy Robert Allan Pinkerton, 33, a slender Harvardman who quit his New York Stock Exchange seat to take over the family business only year and a half...
...reactions to his children's guardians: Lawyer Kutner: What did anybody say if you didn't consent to the appointment? Papa Dionne: They were going to take the nurses away that night and stop the milk from Toronto and the doctor [Allan Roy Dafoe] would quit...
Died. Harry E. Sheldon, 75, president of Allegheny Steel Co., which he and his father-in-law founded with $300,000 in 1900; after brief illness; in Pittsburgh. Orphaned at two, he quit school at nine, five years later became a $2-a-week machine shop apprentice...
...school's most cherished holiday, it was all Mr. Donkin could do to control his muttering minions. It was more than he could do when his feminine wards took a hand in the revolt. Triumphantly the Head proclaimed a check mate; sadly Mr. Donkin acknowledged it. prepared to quit the field like a man. At the last moment, by literary chicanery worthy of P. G. Wodehouse, the day was saved for everyone concerned...