Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their shoulders; no medals, no free radio time, no newsreel hullabaloo greeted his achievement. The civil servants of the U. S. do not inspire public frenzy. Theirs is not to do or die, to show imagination or initiative. Theirs is to get to work at 9 a.m. and quit at 4:30 p.m., like automatons, and to draw their pay until death parts them from the payroll. They are not inspiring Government servants-but they are a lot better than unfit spoilsmen who fill Government offices with ward heelers and live by political preferment...
...might seem strange to you that Krupa isn't way out in front. Well, he's not. As a matter of fact he's not even second. And the reason for this is the fact that Krupa has finally settled down to playing good drums with his band, and quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same way that he ruined Artie Shaw two years ago, and Joe Marsala before...
...Brandt leaped from desk top to desk top, shouting assignments. One day a blonde named Sallye Little walked into his office. Brandt liked her spirit, hired her as a reporter. Soon they began to argue at the top of their voices, throw inkpots and pastepots at each other. Sallye quit, went to work for the opposition Tulsa World. Thereupon Brandt married...
...Joseph Brandt quit the Tribune and took a new job as head of the University of Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press...
...Money are so simple that, judged even by the flattest traditions of Naturalism, they scarcely exist. Joe Stecher is a German-American, his wife Gurlie is Norwegian, his daughters are Lottie, 5, and Flossie, 2. They live in Manhattan, on 104th Street, and the year is 1901. Joe has quit his job (he is a printer) and is trying against stiff, not to say dirty, opposition to set up in business for himself. He lacks the proper piratical zest; but Gurlie is hell-bent to get him-and herself-In the Money. In the long run he succeeds, they...