Word: quiteness
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...Ministry of Labor, acting on the protests of French musicians, ordered 20 or 30 American jazz producers to quit France within five days and confiscated their papers, excepting passports. French musicians claimed that they were out of employment on account of the Americans...
...excuses three years ago, when he broke his hand against Champion Dempsey's jaw. Carpentier, the crowd realized, injured his leg against Gibbons when he was in the midst of his strategic retreat. At this point, one of the ringside sitters yelled out: "The Frog wants to quit!" Rewards. There was no title at stake, and the fight will not go down in the official records, because Indiana laws do not permit decision bouts. The only reward of the boxers was the fun of the thing-and the money. Of the latter, Carp received $70,000, and Gibbons...
...transmitted news of these discoveries to the Senate by letter in response to the first of seven resolutions introduced in the Senate by Nebraskan Norris demanding that seven departments report whether former Cabinet officers or Senators have acted as attorneys in claim cases within two years after they had quit office. Such action is declared by opponents of Nebraskan Norris to be undesirable and contra bonos mores...
Mussolini would like nothing better than that the Pope should quit prison...
Some 68 years ago, a man child was born in County Antrim. He grew. At nine his mother brought him and six younger brothers to America. They settled on a farm in Indiana, near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...