Word: quiteness
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...divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser, by the Perkins Medal (high U. S. chemistry award) for research in rubber chemistry; University...
...Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...
...Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President as a Republican. In 1930 President Hoover, anxious to repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate reject him (TIME...
...Mike quit the hotel. In November, 1923, he quit Harvard. He had been summoned to the University office, where many documents were laid before him. These indicated that he was not a Romanoff, that his current name was unknown at Eton or Oxford, and that he had bilked many students, professors, and tradespeople. "Gentlemen," replied Mike, "I must decline to discuss the matter...
When Izzy in 1927 was "offered" a transfer to Chicago, he quit. (He did not ''want to get mixed up with Capone," said he wanted to die in New York.) He likes Manhattan, wants to go on living where he has always lived, on the Lower East Side. Estimating Manhattan's speakeasies at 100,000 and their employes at half a million, Izzy thinks Prohibition is here to stay-at least for a long time. Now that he is no longer a sleuth, he is making more money, he says, and getting more sleep...