Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear friend Fokine: I am ending my life by suicide because I cannot bear any longer the slander and persecution of the ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance...
...aged 20, Gene Sarazen was so pleased that he carried the big championship cup everywhere he went and once, when the top fell off, had to jump out of a taxi to get it. Neat, slick, sunburned, Sarazen was just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play...
Statistics on suicide are, from the nature of the deed; never complete. Fear of God and the insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...
...last March Corporal Torner was riding as a passenger in the rear cockpit behind Pilot Orlo S. Hoffer when, at 2,000 ft., the plane began spinning out of control. Corporal Torner was about to jump when he saw that the plane was spinning because Pilot Hoffer had fallen ill, was slumped heavily against the joystick. Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with...
...giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...