Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been no formal announcement that Joseph Patrick Kennedy was to quit his post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. But the finality of the Herald's farewell spoke what most Britons and Joe Kennedy's colleagues suspected: he was leaving England for good. Friends knew he wanted to get back in the swim of U. S. politics. He had been mentioned for the job of heading the Defense Commission, a job he would like...
...miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some of China's best troops claimed the capture of three towns near Nanning. This week the Japanese quit...
Careerists, Tiffany men seldom quit. But there are three sure ways to get fired. One is to sell (or give away) a Tiffany box to a non-purchaser. Another is to fight with an old customer. The third is to steal. About once in ten years an employe is caught stealing. But Tiffany's never prosecutes. Instead the wrongdoer is quietly escorted out the rear door, warned never to try the jewelry business again...
...screen writer (some $6,000 weekly) balding Ben Hecht spends many of his expensive words on acid comments about Hollywood moviemakers. Possibly as protest, he and his sidekick, Playwright Charles MacArthur, took four flings at independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow of death. The three strays are a tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper...
...bound from the West Indies to Britain with a cargo of munitions. During most of the voyage, slight, sensitive Photographer Gregg Toland's camera is turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy...