Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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14th. Awake betimes, but lay long abed listening to the little folks doing their merry square-dance inside my head. Lord, how mischievous they are to jump so hard and race their circles round and round. Pictures of last night's revelry coming between the little dancers. Tis passing strange that the good people of Boston keep giving parties when their guests come just for the wine and much too busy chasing one another to play a proper part...
...went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, which showed a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed by I'm the Guy, an equally celebrated series. Sometimes as sardonic as his cartooning idol, San Francisco's salty Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, Rube Goldberg fathered in his drawings...
Beginning in 1940 the tax on employe and employer will jump to 1½%, in 1943 to 2%, in 1946 to 2¼%, in 1949 to 3%. The statement that the tax may eventually reach 4% is not predicated on the present law but on the possibility that collections at the 3% rate will not raise enough money to pay the benefits provided...
...usual, Journalist Radek was one smart jump ahead of his enemies. Just before he "disappeared" he managed to get printed in Izvestia, above his signature, a scorching editorial in which he flayed Trotsky and demanded Death for all "decaying-souled traitors." In this editorial Comrade Radek claimed that he personally sabotaged and foiled the Trotsky plots against Stalin, and this bold claim was expected last week to constitute Prisoner Radek's chief defense in court. It was typical of Soviet justice that, even after Radek's arrest had been admitted, Russian newspapers carried no details of the charges...
Taking a lesson from Dick Harlow's book, the Varsity Lacrosse team decided to have practice in the off season to get the jump on their opponents. As a result the first fall practice was held today on Soldiers Field with more than 20 men reporting...