Word: quiteness
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...Congressmen treated successful men as heroes. Today, in an improved state of national morality, the New Deal looks on tycoons with much the same disapprobation that Nazis look upon Jews. Few are the important businessmen who can quit a Congressional investigation without having their hair singed. Some have gone away without their scalps. Therefore it was an event when a wealthy businessman last week met Senators and departed not only with all his hair but with a Congressional wreath upon...
Blond, curly-headed James R. Collins was sitting around the restaurant at Roosevelt Field Hotel with other unemployed pilots, smoking, sipping coffee, jesting casually about his profession. Since 1929 when he quit as chief test pilot for Curtiss, he had been a free-lance specialist on power dives...
...Worcester will quit his post next September with the affection of both faculty and undergraduates, and with their hope that his new leisure will hold years of enjoyment...
Some time next spring Dr. Bowman will quit his home in Yonkers, N. Y., move to Baltimore. There, on July 1, he will take over the reins of Johns Hopkins from Joseph Sweetman Ames who is retiring...
...find that Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had tagged along. In Rome he visited Tosca. played with their young son. Meanwhile, police investigated Enzo's Reno divorce, illegal in Italy. At Naples Mrs. Madeleine Fiermonte had a cold, could see no one except a lawyer who advised her to quit Italy before she was arrested for bigamy. Said Enzo's aged mother: "My son really loves the American lady a great deal." Last week newshawks rumored that Enzo might be conscripted to fight Abyssinia. Said one official: "He is not considered desirable to represent Italy abroad...