Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Lowlands invasion, Louie Macy returned to Manhattan, soon quit Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
...which makes boxes for explosives and food sent to Britain, granted raises of between 2½? and 7½? an hour. Managing Director Andrew T. Harvey claimed last week that he had applied for permission, had received no Government denial. He protested that his employes had threatened to quit; that, with other plants paying higher wages, he had faced a labor shortage. But, under wartime law, it was too late for British Columbia Box to match other plants' wage scales. The fine...
Leon Henderson was fighting mad last week and showed it as only Leon can. He even threatened to quit as price tsar...
...over CBS, Indiana-born Elmer Davis had earned a reputation as one of the best newsmen in the business. A graduate of Franklin College (1910), he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then he worked ten years on the New York Times as reporter and editorial writer. He quit to freelance, wrote popular fiction. Scholarly in tone and appearance, he is no pedant. When the Saturday Review of Literature carried a weighty article on Indiana authors some years ago, he wrote a dour reply: Indiana's greatest contribution to culture was unquestionably the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard...
...will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason and quit being careful. The same instruments, Wells argues, which have made Tewlers what they are—and the world what it is—can also make the world one community for the teaching, healing saving of Homo Tewler—for the establishment, indeed, of the Wellsian World State towards which this volume like much...