Word: quiteness
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...playmates. They used him to shield their deviltry. The Gang supposedly centred around Daugherty in the Department of Justice.? Its active manager was Jess Smith, Daugherty's friend and roommate, onetime Ohio dry-goods clerk, whose body was found in his hotel room after he had threatened to "quit the racket...
...several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director of the Lucky Strike radio dance orchestra. Last year Nazimova quarrelled with Eva Le Gallienne, quit the latter's Civic Repertory Company after a short engagement. A small woman with a mass of black bobbed hair, she lives in Westchester County. N. Y., wears costumes decoratively Russian, is famed for her even disposition. I Want My Wife is a preposterous, unhappy little farce about...
...tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant 26,000. Union membership in Ohio has dwindled from 42,000 to a bare...
...caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office. He prospered along with the company, became a part owner, grew rich and respectable. When U. S. Steel Corp. bought Carnegie Co. in 1901, he resigned as vice president and treasurer, quit business. Since then he has lived lavishly on his U. S. Steel investment which has multiplied many times in value...
...Will you stand up?" screamed Sharkey. "I can't Jack-you hit me low." Having made sure that Scott would not go on, Magnolia raised Sharkey's hand and gave him the fight, disqualifying Scott for refusing to fight. Said Gene Tunney, a spectator, "Scott quit." Said loquacious James Johnston, manager of Scott and friend of Manhattan's Mayor Walker: "First they send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes...