Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under such circumstances many American owners of money in Europe would want to bring their funds back to the United States and would sell their francs or pounds to get dollars. The result would be a jump in the price of the dollar and a decline in the pound and the franc. This change might be happening at the very moment the funds of some luckless individuals were being sent out of the country. Indeed, the export of capital in times like these is a form of speculation, which has in it all the dangers that any speculation of chance...
...could transpose them into any key. Josef Hofmann offered her a scholarship at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, but when he turned her over to an assistant Father Slenczynski packed her up and took her to Europe where he taught her himself, learning one piece after another just a jump ahead of her. Until she is bigger Father Slenczynski will allow her to play only a limited number of concerts, this season in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes suddenly brightened. He turned to his wife and said, "Can he jump?"* Partly because of this episode, partly because Lifar, now ballet master at the Paris Opera, does many of Nijinsky's roles, the saying has gone around that the 28-year-old Russian "now wears Nijinsky's mantle." Excited by such advance talk, New Yorkers jammed a theatre...
...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...
Tomorrow afternoon, Lowell House will play the Kirkland team, and Dunster House will meet Phillips Brooks House. Should the Bellboys win they would move into a first place tie with the Winthrop Purlians; also, if the Dunster team should win, it too would jump to first place. On the other hand, the Gold Cossievs from Adams will have a chance to gain back the lead, when they play Phillips Brooks House on Thursday...