Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock and his buffoonery; Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson, still cutting up in their own show...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
This clear headed, cool--yes, quite embarrassingly logical--"rising generation," Mr. McLaughlin, has read the history its fathers made and weighed the old catch-words. "Hysterical inhibitions" seem to me often more obvious in the appeal of "leaders of thought" than in the cautious, let's-look-before-we-leap (this time) discussions of ont only Harvard but all other graduates, and of the un-"exposed to education" young men in our streets...
Lupien, in jumping from Soldiers Field to Scranton in the Class A Eastern loop, took a man sized leap, and this makes the success of his season's play all the more pleasing to his Fenway Park bosses...
...captured Polish cities, such as Tarnow, Jews comprise half of the population, and Nazis talked last week of segregating "Ghetto cities," but meanwhile every Jew who could escaped from German Poland last week, many fleeing to Soviet Poland, since to escape to Hungary or Rumania was to leap into anti-Semitic frying pans...