Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas his marksmanship and speed on the draw are famed. His favorite revolver he calls "Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months...
Nineteen years ago William F. Gettle left Oklahoma for Bakersfield, Calif, to become manager of a J. C. Penney chain department store. By 1929 hard work and good fortune in Oklahoma and California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...
...three brothers, Colonel Bradley was born at Johnstown, Pa. His father, Captain Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs...
...wilderness rang with the blows of a crude stone hammer as a swarthy Bolivian and a handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal...