Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed...
Witnesses testified that director Schwarz had recently been at work upon a sequence in which two horses were supposed to be stampeded over the edge of a cliff. Since the cliff selected had a 50-foot clear drop, the horses refused to leap, knowing they would be killed...
...crowned today since Norton, last year's winner, did not qualify yesterday. The Eli star took two trial jumps and then was called to the starting line for the 220 and did not complete his quota of attempts. Mathias of Penn State was the winner with a leap of over 23 feet...
...elevator service to take guest upstairs, but expect them to walk down. All but the most luxurious apartment houses have no elevators whatever. In Scandinavia there have installed a few unattened "never stop elevators," the cars of which pass slowly and continuously from floor to floor while agile passengers leap...
...While the Marshal brooded, a band of Nationalists, infuriated by his press tirade against the Nationalist Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's leap the Marshal seized the instrument, shouted the number of the nearest army barracks, bellowed a command to the astonished officer who answered. True Poles, every soldier in the barracks seized his gun, rushed frenziedly to the rescue of the man who symbolizes Polish freedom - whatever his extragavances of temperament...