Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these three, only Maxine Elliott long survived the post-war world, and not as an actress: she quit the stage years ago. She had always hated acting, had never been too good at it. But it made her rich, it paved the way for her to become one of the world's great hostesses...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...
Mortimer Jerome Adler never graduated from high school. He never got a B.A. degree. In 1917, when he was 15, he quit high school in Manhattan because the principal had taken pardonable annoyance at Adler's efforts to run the school as well as the school paper. After two years on the New York Sun, Adler went to Columbia, finished the four-year course in three as top man in his class. At that time a graduate of Columbia had to be able to swim. Adler neither swam nor learned to swim. He got no degree until...
...yeast fad could not last forever. Many a yeast-eater turned to vitamin pills, easier to take and just as reassuring. Many another just quit. And Standard Brands' profits began to depend more and more on coffee, tea, gelatin, other items in its varied line, all with narrower profit margins than yeast...
...letter to his stockholders, George Washington Hill told them in effect that they would either pay him on his own terms or he would quit. And he certainly had a case. During the 14 years of his presidency, stockholders have received a third of a billion dollars in dividends...