Word: quiteness
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...stairs of Government House stood the retiring Viceroy, long-jawed, lean Freeman Freeman-Thomas, first Earl of Willingdon. Again 31 guns crashed out as Lord Linlithgow shook hands with Lord Willingdon, went inside for a long talk. Before Lord Linlithgow could become the new Viceroy, the old Viceroy must quit India. This Lord Willingdon proceeded to do next day, accompanied by a send-off precisely paralleling Lord Linlithgow's welcome...
With the President back in Washington, the business of the U. S. once more got under way with a Cabinet meeting. Governor Brann of Maine, who threatened to quit the Democratic ticket, had to be seen and conciliated. General Johnson ("stage money") Hagood had to be seen and given command of the Sixth Corps Area at Chicago in place of the Texas command from which he was ousted two months...
...smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter on the Federal payroll, lowans turned Republican Brookhart down. Promptly he wangled an AAA position in Washington as "special adviser" on Russian trade. Last year he quit...
...have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn't the remotest idea of going through the mess of a divorce. . . . Nine times out of ten a man clings to his wife with both hands and wouldn...
Thus at the peak of her popularity did Lucrezia Bori, 48, quit the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. She announced last December that she would retire at the end of the season, said then that she had planned to leave when she was 45 but had stayed on to help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm...