Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left him a few months after they were married...
...Bulletin two years ago, and Morris Watson, baldish A. P. man whose ousting will be argued clear to the Supreme Court, were walking examples. Moreover, Guild officials frankly admitted membership had not increased as they hoped. Once the Guild had 10,000 newshawks signed up. Half of these had quit from apathy or fear of losing jobs...
...morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months later the four lobbyists quit their work, left Washington, having spent only $1,800 of the $23,400 fund. Nonetheless there promptly went out from Townsend headquarters a second appeal for contributions to the fund. To secretaries of some 5,000 Townsend Clubs were mailed "Townsendgrams," got up to look like Western Union messages. Each...
Carl Akeley was a fervent student of animals, a man of dreams and obsessions, a lover of Africa, a skilled and inventive craftsman. At 15 he quit work on his father's farm, sent out cards reading, "Artistic taxidermy in all its branches." He thought stuffed animals were ridiculous, inaugurated the practice of making a sculptured model, faithful in every muscle, curve and hollow, stretching the skin over it. He made his first trip to Africa in 1896. He saw then that little of the real Africa could be conveyed by stiff specimens without backgrounds, or by frayed...
...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...