Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more important to Chungking's gaiety last week was the belief that, at last, serious National Reconstruction might become a reality. It looked for the first time as if Japan might be ready to quit...
Robust son of a Bloomington, Ill. country doctor, Hubbard quit school at 15, became door-to-door salesman for his cousin (J. Weller & Co., Practical Soaps). Few years later, a dandy in sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp...
...accustomed to sighing deeply when anything connected with France is mentioned, today's program at the Institute of Geographical Exploratin will seem admirable. Featuring Danielle Darrieux (elle garde toujours ses lignes), Abus de Confiance is a pleasant little tale about an orphan girl in Paris who is forced to quit the university because her grandmother dies without leaving any money. Danielle, as Lydia, tries every means to earn herself a living; that is, except the unmentionable--and she refuses to try that. She has a pretty hard time because of all the men who appreciate her for the wrong reasons...
Meanwhile the breeding and breathing and aging and division which make up all family chronicles was in steady process-a half-dozen well-told romances. Huw himself was bright enough for the best schooling in England, but after a few years of it he quit it for mining and mining for carpentry. As times got harder in the Valley, Huw's brothers and sisters scattered to the dominions, to the U. S., to Germany. Only the broken remnants of the family stayed on. It came to its worst when Huw was in his 20s, in an addled, furious, revolutionary...
...champions: Veteran Jim Londos (N. Y., Pa., & Calif.) ; Bronko Nagurski and/or Bobby Bruns (Midwest); Everett Marshall (Rocky Mts.). None of these prize beeves has yet offered the Angel a bout, but if he mops up the rest of the herd, the champs may have to face him or quit...