Word: quiteness
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Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
...typical delinquent, dull in school, quit early to work as a servant or factory hand. She played with bad boys and girls, would not go to Sunday school, often ran away from home or "bunked...
...TIME joined the Nazi school of anthropology? Under Races in the issue of Sept. 3, you classify the three dozen Hindus at Tempe, Ariz, with the Japanese as non-Aryan people. "Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley . . . or the Aryans would run them...
...Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just...