Word: quits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian cinema troupe, come to make a realistic film of the dogs in action with their attendants. The Augustinians were willing. But the troupe, having reached its destination, was not. The actors had had enough snow and cold. They would risk their lives no further. They gave up, they quit. The Augustinians laughed and served them warm food, hot drink...
...must not quit too soon...
...medicinal draughts upon the Vagabond's imminent pneumonia--now happily he is out of danger and once more able to set pen to paper--a problem confronts him; or rather be it admitted, a problem did confront him until very recently. In a word he has decided to quit the hallowed shades of Sever, the exalted glories of Emerson--in short the fair, silvan banks of the winding crystal Charles itself--and bask in Bermuda for the rest of this miserable, cold weather...
...harder, and he won't have time for the CRIMSON, shake hands and departs. Or he may cancel his social engagements for the next nine weeks, say good-bye to his roommate, and start working. Surprisingly few, once they have passed the first few trying days, ever quit. They keep on trying until they either make the board or get cut; and if they get cut, they are more than likely to come out for the next competition...
...having gone there, bet on the football game, the New London classic event, win, lose, forget all about it. I should expect to find neatly pressed clothing, red neckties, large wardrobes, pocket books and imaginations prevalent among the undergraduate body. I should realize, having quit the laissez-faire atmosphere of Yale for the savoir-faire atmosphere of Harvard, my intellectual inferiority to those who majestically point out buildings, tell us how to get to Soldiers Field, and invite us in for a couple before the game...