Word: somersault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many such stories about him exist. Once, while walking along icy Fifth Avenue he slipped, threw himself through a flying somersault, landed on his feet, unperturbed kept on walking...
...Jose, Calif., M. T. Moran. 62, stage acrobat, turned a somersault over the back of his car when it was struck by a Southern Pacific R. R. train, saved himself from certain death. "Guess I've got a good racket at that," said M. T. Moran...
Born in Norfolk, Va., with the fairly respectable name of Margaret Upton, Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner was only 15 when she ran away, fascinated, with Trick-Cyclist Heurtin, who promised to teach her how to turn a somersault on a bicycle and thus become a great actress. Mr. Heurtin was like a father to her, the simp, but in Colorado she met Everett Archer, who fluttered her; she married him, discovered that "Love is not beautiful and romantic; it is horrible and disgusting." Two days were enough; she went back to Norfolk with the apprehensive Mr. Heurtin...