Word: leap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parentless, homeless. . . . highwaymen, murderers and dope fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...
...young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...Leap, the flea, killed Creep, the louse- The monkey that became fastened in a crevice by the tenderest portions of his anatomy, is a more familiar anecdote...
Last week the common stock of S. S. Kresge & Co. (five and ten cent stores) began to climb, to leap ahead, now five points, now ten points, like an excited tree-toad. Before the week was over it stood at $705, an advance of 46 points a share...
...London Times appeared the picture of a diving tower. It was so tall that few men would have cared to leap from it, still fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two curmudgeons-Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 78, and Otto Hagburgh, 71-lately performed this feat in England. The London Times' photo showed then in midair...