Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediately jump to the conclusion that I am crazy but I believe that a million or so more of His followers will also have something to say to TIME about this article, and they can't all be wrong...
...Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
...family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried to take an innocent-looking but impossible jump in the hunting field. Stephen did not bother to warn him, let him break his neck instead. Then Stephen quietly suppressed the will by which his brother's estate went to Lady Fearless and her small son Nigel, and took possession himself. Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned...
...there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
...Johnson was instrumental in the construction of the Stadium on Soldiers Field and determined the kind and strength of iron and concrete necessary for a margin of safety. To test the strain which a crowd of enthusiastic football spectators would put it to, he had the entire varsity squad jump up and down on some trial benches...