Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Childless, deeply fond of his Boston Bull and Sealyham, he has simplified his life so that his daily column can be, and is, his consuming interest. He has rejected radio offers as fat as $5,000 for a few-minute broadcast because he feared his column might suffer. He quit drinking long ago, likes lots of candy and indulges a passion for loud clothes which first manifested itself at the age of 8 when he pedaled a velocipede down the streets of Gallipolis,* wearing a plug hat. He once brought 16 bottles of perfume from France for his friends, kept...
...Houston ruled Tennessee and practically created Texas, but there were plenty of times when Virginia was glad to forget that he had been born at Timber Ridge Church, seven miles from Lexington. He lived as a boy with the Cherokees in Tennessee, got to be Governor at 34, quit late in his term because his aristocratic new wife had left him under tongue-wagging circumstances. Sam Houston went back to the Indians to forget. The Indians admired him, trusted him, gave him a squaw, but changed their name for him from "Col-on-neh" to "Big Drunk...
...daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox, Hollywood speculated on whether this would be the signal for Selznick to step into Twentieth Century's shoes at United Artists. Last week, the speculation ended when David Selznick announced that he was forming his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists...
...handwriting on the extortion notes was Lelia's, held up enlarged specimens to prove it. Two of the jurors could not read or write, but with the rest they brought in a verdict of guilty, condemning Lois Thompson to 30 days in jail. Shortly thereafter Daniel Shaw, having quit Northeastern State Teachers College forever, was well out in the Pacific...
Reassured, the stockmarket regained all lost ground and last week pushed forward to the best levels since September 1931- just before Britain quit the gold standard. More inspiring was a sudden interest in slumbering railroad stocks, particularly those of the transcontinentals. Great Northern blossomed out as the week's second most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange, rising on reports of bumper Northwestern crops to $19.75, up $3.50. Northern Pacific jumped $2.50 to $19.75. Atchison at $47 and Union Pacific at $105.50 were both...