Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Nov. 3 under heading People you write: "The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East...
...after careful thought and prayer" he himself had quit the movement because of his "increasing misgivings...
...Chapman Andrews, famed Gobi Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come...
Sample stunts: making a thimble vanish; matching cards picked by a spectator; "cutting" ropes and putting them together again. Dr. Kelley's prize patient is a salesman who developed a fear of talking to people, had to quit his job. After six weeks of training, Dr. Kelley got him to perform three tricks at a patients' party. A few weeks later he was completely cured...
...unified story, but it has a kind of sustained theme in the relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good mother (Sara Allgood) bear the family disintegration with humility and courage...