Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heady smell of horses, leather, manure and stable antiseptics has fortified many a gypsy horse owner and trainer against the stress of staying half a jump ahead of the sheriff. Often as not there is no rainbow at the end of the trail. For little Jean Charles ("Frenchy") Pinon there was-after 13 threadbare years...
...Songs. The career of Billy Rose, who began life as William Samuel Rosenberg, has always been eventful. Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the son of a man "who, when people were doing passementerie, he handled fringe," Billy made the high-school track team by learning to jump the gun without detection, became a shorthand whiz and stenographer for Barney Baruch ("Baruch is still the only idol in my book"). But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley. There, writing the lyrics for such song hits as Barney Google, Million Dollar Baby, Rainbow Round My Shoulder...
Asked how he was handling the 1944 buying rush, the manager of Scribner's Manhattan bookshop replied (according to Bennett Cerf in Try and Stop Me): "Oh, at 9 o'clock we just open the doors and jump...
...Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932, five years later marched off with a green-shirted "Irish Army" to help...
...Tokyo-born Henry Ebihara, 24, became the first to jump at a brand-new War Department ruling permitting alien Japanese to enlist in the U.S. Army. Ebihara, whose younger brothers & sisters are all citizens, was brought to the U.S. at the age of two. A Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another...