Word: quiteness
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...Federal Farm Board last week was passed its final stack of chips to play the wheat and cotton markets. Congress voted it $100,000,000-last of its original $500,000,000 allowance-with the implication that it must make good on its stabilization program or quit...
...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
...pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall and sparse; steady, piercing eyes; a warm, friendly handclasp for everyone; speech homely and Biblical ; a proud rumble...
President Arosemena had just said to correspondents: "I have not resigned. I will not quit public office." But after Minister Davis had seen him privately he began to reconsider and eventually he resigned...
...directed by Cyril Gardner and George Cukor, The Royal Family of Broadway takes rank as one of the year's best pictures. Technically its story is an exposition of the theme that the fascination of their job holds show people on the stage even when they want to quit. Actually it is a glittering picture of the off-stage affairs of interesting people-of the middle-aged woman who wants to leave the stage to marry a businessman, of the dashing scapegoat son, and a girl of a younger generation who has not tried the footlights...