Word: leapings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...golden call of a trumpet blazed last week in a rococo Manhattan theatre. On the stage, blonde, hollow-cheeked Dancer Tatiana Riabouchinska, in the blazing gold costume of the cock in Coq d'Or, soared in the grand jete, the ballet's classic leap. On other nights, when the stage was ranked with silk tights and tutus (tarlatan ballet skirts), pretty, plump-cheeked Irina Baronova and dark, lissome Tamara Toumanova took the spotlight for effortless spins, whirls, leaps...
...Porter was as fine a man as you would want to meet. But after following Linda to New York, he perversely fell in love with a foreign correspondent's wife whose face was ravaged as the result of a chemical explosion, but it became necessary for Linda to leap into a river in despair. Then the doctor had a nervous breakdown. Unable to figure out any way to get the doctor back on the right track the authors at this point decided to send him home to mother. Meanwhile Linda was rescued by an Irish bargeman whose sister...
...last winter a young textile worker went to Manhattan's Neurological Institute. He complained of "spells." Whenever he took a nip of alcohol, coffee, tea or cola drinks, said he, the result was startling: he would lose control of his muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop...
...broad jump the Bellboys finally cracked through the Kirkland defense and grabbed first with a total distance of 50 feet, 5 inches. Robinson Murray's leap of 18 feet, 2 1/2 inches topped all others and was the major factor in winning the event...
Most spectacular hop-over was the leap of voluble, iron-whimmed Dorothy Thompson, who declared for Franklin D. Roosevelt. With womanly consideration she lunched with Mr. Willkie (whom Miss Thompson knows as Wendell) first, made it clear that she was coming out against him. A lengthy talk failed to change her mind. Her reasons for coming out for Roosevelt: his experience, his prestige in the democratic world, her faith in his ability to "be a very great man in an emergency," her belief that he has "the confidence of the rank and file." Said she: "Mr. Willkie might also...