Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Craig's Wife" was George Kelly's inimitable dialogue translated into movie language, whose two-way dimensions do not encourage, as the stage does, the possibility that ladies of the audience might be allowed to leap the footlights and tell Mrs. Craig what is known as a Few Things...
...consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking Mr. Talmadge would fight a duel to death with his double and that they would both...
...real BRITANNIA is a serene Imperial Goddess, hymned by certain Christians who rule many a wave. But now in London a small, suave Semite is putting forth a new and blatant Britannia?a magazine which proposes to leap at one bound into commanding rulership of the pulpy waves on which are printed British advertisements...
...Monday, Oct. 15, the exchange opened with Montgomery Ward the centre of all eyes. Rumors flew fast. Traders heard that good news was on the way. Monday saw Montgomery Ward leap to 304¾. Tuesday added 1¼ points...