Word: quite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer places. Then, one day two months ago, he quit...
...French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came...
...blossom. This canvas won first honorable mention and $300. Meticulously Painter Bruce had picked out each bud against a leaden sky, producing a pleasant, symmetrically composed picture, eclectic, Japanesque. It is not particularly remarkable, but Edward Bruce has not long been a painter. U. S. merchant, banker, lawyer, he quit business in 1922, aged 43, and retired to Italy to study under U. S. Painter Maurice Sterne, who was a member of this year's jury of award. Conspicuously absent from the exhibition are the works of greatly famed artists. Among the well known names represented were: Sir John...
...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
Hugh Simons Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, overworked by disarmament negotiations for his good friend, the President of the U. S., quit his post, went to Biarritz for a month's rest...