Word: quiteness
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...Angeles, Judge Walter Guerin awarded a divorce and alimony to one Mrs. Grace Miller. Mrs. Miller's complaint : her husband would fight with her, always "quit." Husband Miller's defense: "A man can't get anywhere fighting with a woman...
...back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take charge...
...Quit your quarreling. Get down to work. Collect the taxes. Quit worrying about who will be nominated and who will be elected. Eliminate politics from this tax matter. Perhaps the assessment is not perfect. It would be wonderful if it was. I am not mixing in your local affairs; but let me tell you this; that you later will be asking for a special session of the legislature. When that comes, it will deal with taxes and nothing else...
Banker McGarrah would not comment. Friends spoke of the "great sacrifice" it would be for him to quit his august Federal Reserve post; but few thought that he would not choose to go to Switzerland and shoulder Europe's great task...
...Liverpool on a cattle boat. Coming back from England on a U. S. liner as a stowaway the next year, he read in an outdated magazine about the trip around the world in a 40-foot boat that Jack London was planning to take. London's cook had quit. Johnson applied by letter for the job. London wired Johnson: "Can you cook? Salary $25 a month, also take trick at wheel." To qualify, Johnson worked for a week in a restaurant. When the expedition broke up in the South Seas he lived on the beach for a year and learned...