Word: quiteness
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...James Walcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York.* Twelve years (1915-27) in the Senate, his seat in which he lost because he would not weasel on Prohibition, proved his worth as a statesman. "I'm not out of politics by a long sight," declared Mr. Wadsworth when he quit the Senate. Tried & true blood rather than young new blood (he is 55), Mr. Wadsworth is counted upon by G. O. Partisans not only to make a conspicuous House record for himself, despite the hobbling effects of seniority rules, but also to lead the rehabilitation of their party...
...abandon himself to something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
...other characteristics. Its founders and chief editors are 27-year-old Alfred Mitchell Bingham, Yale law graduate, son of Republican Senator-reject Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; Selden Rodman, founder and former editor of The Harkness Hoot, literate, insurgent Yale undergraduate magazine; and Charles C. Nicolet. able newsman who quit the New York World-Telegram to assist them. Deriving its name from Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet. Common Sense promised to "stand on a platform of protest, and present a forward-looking program...
Farm-born Colonel Deeds quit N. C. R. with his good friend Charles Franklin Kettering to develop the Delco ignition system for automobiles. In 1916 they sold out to General Motors for several millions and Mr. Kettering followed to become a pillar of G. M. Colonel Deeds became interested in aviation during the War. took charge of Government airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National...
...Frank Borzage?who quit school at 13 and worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage?it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant...