Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supper table. She will stab him, steal away hugger-mugger to the condemned Cavaradossi. But Scarpia will have double-crossed her as he has hundreds of performances before, will have served his rival a real execution instead of the blank cartridges promised. And Tosca, her own murder discovered, will jump once more on to the operatic parapet, sing an operatic farewell, fling herself far out of sight into a pillowed Tiber...
Discerning observers did not jump at a conclusion without considering the following facts anent the plebiscite...
PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...
...Municipal Stadium, leading by ten yards Mr. Grinley of the Otis Elevator Company. A few moments later the crowd roared the name of V. Biesiakiewicz, roadman for Wanamaker's as he romped over the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 flat. Smith, an elevator man, won the broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score of 69; Pennsylvania Railroad was second with...
...Kemalist regime last week the arbitrary and unexplained closing by the Turkish police of a Baby Clinic, charitably financed by U. S. citizens including Admiral Bristol (TIME, Sept. 14) famed and able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey. The Admiral, at whose lightest word Turks have learned to jump, was cruising in the Black Sea last week knew not that his Baby Clinic was menaced...