Word: quiteness
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...motor ride. Premier Mussolini, caught a cold. The cold proved to be influenza. The Premier went to bed. The Senate adjourned in consequence. Bulletins were issued: "The Premier has influenza." "The Premier's condition is improving." Finally: "The Premier is well and will be permitted to quit his bed in a few days." The Senate and Chamber of Deputies decided to reconvene...
...face of this opposition, the U. S. delegation, last week, quit Geneva, entrained for Paris en route for Washington, washed its hands of the conference. China followed suit...
...that Breakspear quit the monastery of which he was Abbot in a pleasant Province, and proceeded, as Cardinal-Legate, to the rough untutored northlands of Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
Hughes was next to quit...
...hours later. Three runners leapt forward; fast they went, though they had a mile and three-quarters to go. In front was a light skinny one, this Nurmi; behind him came Joie Ray, Fred Liewendahl. Lap after lap they padded. At the tenth they were only two; Liewendahl had quit. At the twentieth Nurmi looked over his shoulder at lurching, wavering Ray. Then he set his eyes on the tape, flashed through it, trotted off to his dressing room. Eighty yards behind came Ray, crossed the finished, collapsed into the arms of an admirer. Nurmi's time...