Word: quits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tulsa and found that he was "regular" and financially reliable. So Magee bought, Fall telling him that he was glad to get the money since he was about broke. Soon Magee began to expose corruption in New Mexican politics. Fall came to his office and demanded that Magee quit his attacks. Magee went on. One day Senator Bursum, then "on the outs" with Fall came into Magee's office and said in effect: "You have a loan of $60,000 from a Kansas City bank. It's due pretty soon. You think it's going...
...Will quit her razz-ma'tazzle, her sneakin' jizzle-jazzle...
...Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming, cheered more loudly by huge waiting crowds than the winner, Joseph Ledriant, French sailor, who finished...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
Last week, Premier Painlevé of France decided to recognize the country's pledge. French and Belgian troops began to quit the Ruhr and, by Aug. 15, not a soldier of the occupation will be seen...