Word: firma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 40 acts, moreover, are good; the best of them are breathtaking. On terra firma, the Rachellis-Borgianas tumble with unusual style and precision; "Natal" looks and frisks for all the world like a monkey, but turns out to be a man; Equestrienne Claude Valois and others offer some beautiful dressage; and the clowns explode a crazy new contraption called The Adam Smasher...
...broomsticks streak through, the stratosphere. Where are the brooms we need tomorrow on good old terra firma? Where are the new brooms that can sweep ignorance and envy and hatred and corruption from the world...
...line essays on moral subjects (e.g., "Nothing fails like Success"). They spoke English fluently, but after the manner (somewhat corrupted) of their 18th Century creator, Jonathan Swift. They would say: "He fell Victim to Intoxication, and dismounted from his Nag to seek the Safety of the Terra Firma...
...cartoon called Island Hopping shows a steel-spring mannikin stepping triumphantly toward the Jap home fortress over Pacific islands which are not all terra firma...
...steeled himself to take three flights, in two years, and on the last one suggested that I do stunts with him. After two loops he looked back from the front seat and pointed straight down to terra firma. . . . I still recall the glassy look of his eyes...