Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Oneco, Conn., one L. H. Brown, told the game warden he had seen a trout leap out of the Moosup River, catch a low-flying sparrow, gulp it down...
...into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes 268-the sidewalks of New York leap into a frenzied dance-Al is elected with only 2 votes to spare...
...which has 13 months to the year, four weeks to the month, and one extra day each year which would be a super-holiday. Such a calendar, said the able professor, would run until the year 17600 A. D. with no ill effects, except to deprive women of Leap Years, which will come only once each 600 years...
...hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...
...continued in its crazy aspect of wildcat frontier town. Last week the Post's frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash...