Word: quiteness
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...August 1921 the Event Bureau of Venice, nearby beach resort, built a "Miracle City" for him. The Bureau had to make him quit at 8 o'clock every evening to give its other concessions a chance. One day in September he manipulated the limbs of a longtime rheumatic. Next day she died and John Cudney was arrested for manslaughter. When a jury acquitted him six months later he marched from the courtroom on a path of flowers...
...sent out two salvage boats in charge of its ace operations man, a spidery, sun-browned little spitfire named Frank Curtis. This looked to Frank Curtis like the hardest job of his life. Grappling lines slipped and snapped, power winches broke. In August the salvage crew was ready to quit. Spitfire Curtis jumped up & down, barked, screamed and swore until they went back to work. In October an anchor chain whacked Frank Curtis across the legs, almost cut them off. Two hours later, with two men holding him upright, he was back on deck directing operations...
...where it topped a new women's page column called "In Capitol Letters." The Administration-baiting Tribune said the change was due to disagreement over policy, with the implication that Mrs. Herrick would not conform to the paper's hostile attitude toward the Roosevelts. She said she quit for sentimental reasons which only she would understand...
Syndicates. In the year of Editor & Publisher's birth Samuel Sidney ("S. S.") McClure, 27, quit Century Co. with the idea of buying original fiction from good authors, selling it to newspapers in different cities. He had no money for printed stationery. His young wife had often to choose between meat for dinner and postage stamps for the sales letters. She always chose stamps. That year and the next S. S. McClure sold stories by Kipling, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, etc., to a dozen papers. The newspaper syndicate business in the U. S. was started. Teller of the tale...