Word: springboarding
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...Wells would have changed to a new figure of speech if he had remembered that Shaw at 71 excels in back somersaults from the high springboard. It is to be hoped that the occasion never arrives with Wells in the water and Shaw on the dock: Mr. Wells would doubtless receive a weighted life preserver, while Shaw was using the chest carry to bring Mr. Pavloff ashore...
...Shower Bath is full of a lot of naked businessmen who have just been trying to exercise. A scrawny little man is standing by the pool snickering at a brawny tub-of-guts who looks like Bully Boy Brewster. A bony oaf on the springboard is telling a dirty joke to a bald-headed codger with a pot belly. Goggle-eyed boosters paddle about in the pool or rub their misshapen haunches with towels. Near the showers is a scales for them to weight themselves...
...Springboard. If ever critics by dozens are found foully murdered in their beds the police will logically detain Sidney Blackmer as the first suspect. Mr. Blackmer, who has played some parts excellently, is subject to an almost annual avalanche of freezing abuse. This year, he deserves it. He is employed as a devastating lover. He marries the girl. He continues devastation, elsewhere. She sues for divorce. He repents. She repents. Curtain...
...Brother of Architect Irving Kane Pond, able turner of head and handsprings at the age of 70, with and without springboard (TIME, May16...
TIME inferred that Mr. Pond had done his somersaults from a springboard because of the photograph shown above-which was widely circulated by Pacific & Atlantic news photo service the day after Mr. Pond (aged 70) performed his difficult feat. For Mr. Pond to have turned aerial somersaults from a springboard is remarkable. For him to have turned them from the mat is all the more remarkable. TIME regrets that it unconsciously belittled Mr. Pond's feat, joins now in loud applause...