Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to the U. S. with greater devotion than ever hurried Fritz Kuhn. Nobody knew better than he what a tough job he was in for. Those Jews were everywhere. Recruits came, but there was no stampede to jump on the Bundwagon. And everywhere the Gottverdammt Jews made trouble: Fritz was arrested for traffic violations, for drunkenness; attacks in the courts, in the press, in the seat of the pants...
This week the 18 German divisions that did not march over the eastern frontier of The Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
Captain Harry George Armstrong, a salty ex-Marine doctor, is director of the Army's efficient Aero-Medical Research Laboratory at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Ten years ago Dr. Armstrong made his first parachute jump from an altitude of 2,200 feet, then published a cold, detailed medical report on his "free fall in space...
...just a few minutes he was undressed and waiting to be taped. Johnny was still tearing the adhesive, and still nobody else had come in. He sat on a chewed-up bench and stretched out his legs, wiggling his toes, absently watching his calf muscles jump into a curve. The soreness was all gone...
...Little Dixie-the best of the town's Harlem points. Jack Hill's band is one of the finest jump combos in this vicinity and is worth hearing. They play much like Basic with some very good sax solo work and some fine arrangements done for them by a Harvard Med. School student. Place usually has some good dancers and a singer who gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor...