Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent proselytizer for the Newspaper Guild, until he decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...Albert is probably right?this time. Anyway, I could not tell him to quit whistling in the dark, because there is no equivalent to this phrase in the French language...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
Jack Benny headed right back where he started from: vaudeville. But 15 years before the microphone had made the boards seem mighty soft underfoot. When Jack quit the stage in 1931, he was making a mere $1,000 a week. Now he would open on Broadway, at the Roxy, for what looked like the biggest pay ever shelled out for a personal appearance. Variety's guess: $40,000 a week...
...still a dedicated man. Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other...