Word: quiteness
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...grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck his head in the water heater, turned on the gas. He was found, revived...
...special assistant to prosecute War frauds. He helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next month...
...ambition. And thus, as John Doeg began to win, it was altogether a distressing afternoon for Tilden. Time and again the latter stopped play to wait for the gallery to quiet itself. Finally Doeg, a youngster the like of whom has kowtowed to Tilden for years, suggested that they quit bickering and play tennis. In the second set Tilden fell trying to recover a shot. After that he hobbled around, glowering, displaying occasional samples of the brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine...
...invest. Once he explained his success thus: "You just go to New York and take an interest in things. You just look around." In 16 years Mr. Meyer had made all the money he wanted and more. When War came in 1917 he was only too glad to quit the financial district and go to Washington at the call of his great & good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch to take an advisory position with the War Industries Board. When Congress created War Finance Corp. to make loans to industries essential to the War, President Wilson made Mr. Meyer a director, later...
...English team that people expected a month ago. Aidan Roark got mastoid. Captain Richard George, another tentative No. 1, fell ill too. Barney Balding was tried out for a week. He had to quit after a bad fall. A young lieutenant of the Royal Scots Greys named Humphrey Guinness had done well as a substitute in 1927. There was nothing for it now but to put him in at back, move the veteran Lewis Lacey to No. 2-a position he had never played before when a match meant anything-leave Capt. C. T. I. Roark...