Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every manufacturing country, unemployment was rapidly disappearing, for capital and labor flowed into war industries. Immigration dwindled, but U. S. cotton exports to continental Europe dropped from 4,600,000 bales a year to 1,400,000. In 1915 and 1916 thousands of Negroes quit the fields of the South to take jobs in New York City, Chicago, Detroit-and there were jobs for them in the booming war industries...
John Garner read the statement, chuckled, said "No comment." Newshawks began checking, soon learned that "Cactus Jack" quit high-stake poker about 1920, has since played seldom and then for "buttons."* All top-rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for good corn, scorns soda, ice and fancy fixings, pours water-tumblers half-full, says "Let's strike a blow for liberty" and chases with a little "branch-water" out of the faucet. He has never been seen drunk or even lightly groggy. After 6 p. m. for some...
...reporter, sometimes as slot-&-rim man. He followed carnivals as pressagent, married a carnival girl. Once in Oklahoma City he got what he called "a eatin' job" selling tea from house to house. He made $120 the first week, $140 the second week, $135 the third week, quit the fourth week to take a $35 job on a paper...
...That night"-Willie translated-"the manitou came again to the chief and . . . ordered, 'Twelve babies you bring in. Those old men sing to those babies and keep on singing to those babies until those babies starve to death. At that point you fellows quit singing...
...Author. William Blake is a small, garrulous man of 45, who was brought up in St. Louis, Chicago and Manhattan, the son of an army surgeon and descendant of a long line of atheists. A boy prodigy in mathematics and history, he quit school at 15 to become secretary to a retired millionaire who fancied radicals. An anarchist sympathizer, at 18 he made campaign speeches for Woodrow Wilson. He made and lost a War fortune in commodities purchased on borrowed money, turned conscientious objector when the U. S. entered the War. Since 1919 he has worked in Wall Street, managed...