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Word: quits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diamonds on her belly Will quit her razz-mu'tazzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medicine Man | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Front (Charles Murray, George Sidney). From Manhattan at the beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Irked, irate, President George P. Johnson last week gave the disaffected employes a thoroughgoing reprimand: "The profit sharing is not necessarily a permanent plan. . . . To those that are dissatisfied with the results of last year's business I recommend a prompt resignation. . . . I wish such would quit. I am sincere in this wish. . . ." The vigor as much as the common sense of the words gave the grumblers a change of heart. Practically all went back to their work cheerfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bonus Grumblers | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...late, whenever the weather was nice-there have been such days the Student Vagabond has felt very little the student and very much the wanderer. In fact due to his pervailing optimism, and the fact that his brother has recently purchased a new car, the Vagabond has decided to quit the nine months dust of the lecture halls and be take himself-oh, anywhere. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, he can hardly give a prospectus of his whereabouts-although applicants for automobile rides will be considered, (Line forms to the right). So to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

...during the afternoon. My riding became bad. We lost races which it seemed we should have won. I was riding the best horses, but couldn't win with them and I was blamed for the defeats. But I was still asked to gallop horses every morning. It was either quit Whitney or become a bum as a rider and so I quit Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Near Louisville | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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