Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...Dancer Marilyn Miller whirled airily offstage, bumped brutally into her costar, frail Dancer Clifton Webb. Up to her side to berate Dancer Webb leaped Chorusman Chester ("Chet") O'Brien, who was also the show's second assistant stage manager. When it was over. Dancer Webb threatened to quit if O'Brien were not fired, Dancer Miller threatened to quit if O'Brien were fired. Everybody stayed...
Thus sang the beery compositors of the venerable Springfield (Mass.) Republican from the time of Founder Samuel Bowles (1824) through the regime of Samuel II (1851) and Samuel III (1878). When Samuel III ("Sambo") died in 1915 the printers quit singing about "young Sam Bowles." It was evident that Samuel IV would never become "old Sam Bowles" to the staff. A rollicking, roving reporter, he did not get along with his sober, thoughtful father, spent little time on the Republican. Hence "Sambo" left control of his newspaper to his favorite younger son, Sherman Hoar Bowles...
...train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
...typical delinquent, dull in school, quit early to work as a servant or factory hand. She played with bad boys and girls, would not go to Sunday school, often ran away from home or "bunked...