Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeleine Carroll, who two years ago quit Hollywood to do war work, then went overseas on Red Cross duty, was something pretty special for S/Sgt. William W. Sharpe of Drexel Hill, Pa. to write home about: "Still confined to a wheelchair, but am thrilled every day when Madeleine Carroll takes me out for an airing...
Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots...
...Chaloult, a French Canadian bigot who never thought that Canada should enter the war, seriously proposed last week that she should quit...
...statement touched on another sore spot-labor turnover. In February, out of every 1,000 war workers, 65 quit. Only 53 could be recruited to take their places, a net loss of twelve men per 1,000 in the nation's war-plant labor force...
...years Fitzgerald acted only part-time, working part-time, too, as a "nominal" student at the Abbey. Gradually he got more important roles and a deeper interest in them; at last he quit his civil service desk for good. His first full-time professional appearance was in The Silver Tassie, in 1929. His friend Sean O'Casey wrote it especially...