Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Hindus and Moslems should vote separately. H. N. Brailsford, a sympathetic British student of India, has said: "We labeled them Hindus and Moslems till they forgot they were men." The British policy of "divide and rule" has been turned by Jinnah to the Pakistan demand "divide and quit...
Last week 71-year-old Fritz Kreisler sold his Strad for less than its assessed value of $80,000. The buyer was a onetime child prodigy named Dorotha Powers, who quit concert playing in 1937 when she married a wealthy businessman, now wants to make a comeback at 30. Kreisler had hardly ever played the Earl Strad in concerts ; he found it did not suit his leisurely fiddling style as well as one made by Guarnerius, a Stradivarius contemporary...
...Congressmen, most of whom were among the 109 Democrats who had voted for the bill, exploded, demanded that the slur on their honor be expunged. It soon was. Next day Bob Hannegan meekly wired that the offending words were the unfortunate mistake of a misguided writer, who had already quit...
Paris had been kind to Gauguin the dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...
...this worried the British so much about future operations that they privately muttered: if the British loan is not granted, they will probably quit Bretton Woods. Summed up the Manchester Guardian: "The meeting was intensely discouraging. . . . Every proposal put forward by the American delegation was pressed through with steamroller tactics. . . . In fact, the worst fears of those who have always warned us that this is what the U.S. meant by international economic cooperation were borne out at Savannah...