Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual question-"Are you going to make any New Year's resolutions?"-Tireless Pollster George Gallup got the usual answers. The most popular resolutions: 1) to save more money, 2) improve my character, 3) improve my disposition. No. 9: quit drinking...
...Jamini Roy, a Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
...most of the Herald's profits came from its fat German and Italian shipping and resort advertising, and the Paris edition shamelessly toadied to the Nazis and Fascists-while its New York superiors were stoutly antitotalitarian. Newsmen might complain or quit, but its late editor, Laurence Hills, could always find enough reporters on the town to fill the gaps. Finally, in 1939, Hills began to write scathing frontpage, anti-Hitler editorials. Expatriate Americans were heading for home, and the Herald's 35,000 circulation plummeted to less than 10,000. On June 12, 1940, Managing Editor Eric Hawkins...
...restrained herself until she reached 19, then did "what one does at 19": eloped with a Virginian who had a string of ponies. Four years later one of the ponies threw her, broke a vertebra in her neck. When it had healed she 1) got a divorce, 2) quit playing the viola because her neck was too weak to clinch the instrument, 3) began recording music. Soon nothing would do but perfection. Says she: "I'm just damn tired of hearing bad records...
...people") only to fall into the hands of the Turks, who made slaves of Coxere and his mates-"in chains, two and two together. . . . Several nations of us ... and all lousy." After 20 years of such experiences, along with savage sea battles and shipwrecks, Ned Coxere turned Quaker, quit the sea-and served a spell in a Dover jail as a religious heretic...