Word: quiteness
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Georgia's little Bulldogs quit the gambling football they played against N. Y. U. and Alabama and went after Georgia Tech, cautiously, as though convinced that this was an important game. In the first period Waugh was hell, but after that the Yellow Jackets blocked one of Chandler's punts, hurried him on another, made him fumble a third, tied the score. Georgia picked up a blocked kick and an edge. Georgia 12. Georgia Tech...
...bank and $2 to start business again. "Should you live 10 years and continue to buy booze from her and then die with snakes in your boots, she will have money enough to bury you decently, educate your children, buy a house and lot, marry a decent man and quit thinking about...
...British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer places. Then, one day two months ago, he quit...
...French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came...
...blossom. This canvas won first honorable mention and $300. Meticulously Painter Bruce had picked out each bud against a leaden sky, producing a pleasant, symmetrically composed picture, eclectic, Japanesque. It is not particularly remarkable, but Edward Bruce has not long been a painter. U. S. merchant, banker, lawyer, he quit business in 1922, aged 43, and retired to Italy to study under U. S. Painter Maurice Sterne, who was a member of this year's jury of award. Conspicuously absent from the exhibition are the works of greatly famed artists. Among the well known names represented were: Sir John...