Word: jumps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., Bess, fox terrier, went up with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached the limp bundle on the field, they saw ripples under the cloth, saw Bess emerge and lope off toward the hangar where she sleeps...
Three days after the disappearance, a rabbit hunter found Nelson 25 miles east of Cleveland near Chagrin Falls, where the Alleghenies give their last, low roll towards the Great Plains. He had jumped just before crashing. The jump apparently stunned him. The half-open folds of his parachute quilted him too thinly. Unconscious, he froze to death, hard by the busy Cleveland to Pittsburgh motor road, the tenth mail flyer to die on the New York-Cleveland route...
...desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora...
...Montreal, one Billy Hights bumped his auto into a truck. His wooden leg caught fire. Unable to jump, he was badly burned...
...list for today is going to keep the Vagabond pretty much on the jump despite his experience of often riding two horses at once...