Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt, 25, wife of Abram S. ("Chappie") Hewitt, greatgrand-daughter (maternal) of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; great-great-granddaughter (paternal) of John Jay; in Manhattan, by a fall or leap from her apartment window, following nervous breakdown...
...President's budget message asked Congress for appropriations of $4,014,571,124.60 to run the Government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928. This is only a slight increase over the 1927 figures, but a big leap from 1917 when citizens were first awed by "a billion dollar Congress...
Soon the sleek motor of the Prince Regent purred forth, on its way to the Imperial Palace. Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
Author Chrisman made his leap to eminence from a literary nowhere. Raised near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he sought his fortune only a few years ago in the cinema studios of California. A camel stepped on him during the making of Intolerance. A fellow "extra" trod upon his face in The Gentleman from Indiana...
Doubtful States. Somewhere a wise owl once hooted: "That which is full of doubt is full of attention." And so it is with nine states where good and bad orators leap from stump to stump, where a casual epigram or a few kissed babies may make or unmake a U. S. Senator...