Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council's banker ties was contained in strong suggestions that the Council's work should be broadened, i) to include bondholders' suits against underwriters, 2) more vigilance in seeing that short-term creditors-almost always bankers-do not yank their own chestnuts from the fire one jump ahead of the long-term bondholders. In Germany, of course, the big Manhattan bankers did that consistently throughout the Depression...
...seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that...
...Princeton last week Oxford-Cambridge showed supremacy in the field as well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs...
...Rumania, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nila Cram Cook (from Iowa to Gandhi and back), the late Mrs. Elsa Einstein ("Joys & Sorrows of Being a Famous Man's Wife"). Last week Leslie Fulenwider decided it was time he did something on his own. He arranged to take a parachute jump, his first, and describe his sensations in a syndicated article he would ghostwrite for himself...
...know damned well that, if they told me today I'd have to go through at noon tomorrow what I've been through already, I'd jump right out of this bed and run from here to Jericho...