Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is only one sure and moneysaving way to quit smoking: just stop...
Overtime. In St. Louis, Louis Druzinsky, St. Louis Symphony violinist, donned old clothes and dark glasses, fiddled Paganini and Tchaikovsky at a street corner, collected $5.98 in his tin cup in 25 minutes, philosophized: "I ought to quit the Symphony. I can make more money this...
Last week Henry Reichhold really did start something. The Austrian-born chemist (who quit Henry Ford in 1927 in an argument over a raise in salary to $7 a day, now runs his own show as chairman of Detroit's Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.) offered prizes of $25,000, $5,000 and $2,500 for the three best symphonies (half-hour or less) turned out during the next year by U.S. and Latin American composers...
Arturo Toscanini is unquestionably the world's greatest opera conductor. But until last week he had not conducted opera anywhere for eight years, in the U.S. for nearly 30. Since 1915, when he quit after a row with General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the maestro has not considered the Metropolitan up to his exacting standard...
...Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...