Word: quiteness
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...Washington one D. B. Flohr, successor to the chauffeur who quit Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins because she made him work 17 hours a day (TIME, May 15), was asked if he had any such complaint. Cried Chauffeur Flohr: "Say! You can put this down. She's the sweetest little woman in the world to work...
...lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going to quit racing and go back to California. Six minutes later, Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis sputtered across the line for second place, and after him Lou Moore of Los Angeles...
...Capital would be extremely difficult to raise for the multitude of middle-sized honest companies. Thus most middle-sized bankers would quit the underwriting business...
Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...
Samuel Levin, president of the Hartford Glider Club, was enjoying a ride in the forward cockpit of a two-seater Curtiss-Wright Junior one day last week over Hartford, Conn. when suddenly the motor quit, the plane's nose pulled up steeply. Sam Levin had enough experience in gliders to know that a stall, a spin, probably a crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled...