Word: quiteness
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Disobedient and daring, the firemen refused to quit, though they knew that in Lyon's 1930 autumn landslide 19 firemen were killed. Roared Mayor Herriot: "Get back! Back all of you!" When this had no effect, the burly Mayor rushed in and climbed to the top of the ruins, placed himself in the post of maximum danger, bellowed: "Do you all want to be killed? Messieurs, I insist that you get back...
...returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system, without taking a Bastille, without decapitating...
...President: "We're selling all the cars we can make and we're getting in lots of cash, some of it in big bills. I mean by big bills the old-style large-size ones that might have been in hiding. If the people who quit business to go into gambling a few years ago would go back to work, they could sell all they produce." Mr. & Mrs. Ford drove off in a Lincoln (the White House impartially uses Cadillacs, Pierce-Arrows, Lincolns-three of each) to "enjoy the flowers" in Virginia...
...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Michigan Daily: "In general, we believe politics is too unremunerative as a profession to be a field for the college graduate. The general attitude is one of disinterestedness. . . ." The University of Rochester Campus: ". . . Rochester men do not agree with the Yale Daily News. . . . College men should not quit because the task appears difficult." The Penn State Collegian: ". . . Before the undergraduate gets too critical, he should attempt to clear up a bit in his own backyard. Some of the methods used to get votes by fraternity cliques in many colleges would put the average politician to shame." The Daily Princetonian: ". . . Most...