Word: leapt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harold Grange may well become a popular cinema hero. His acting, while not profound, is natural, easy, almost casual. His gridiron performance at the end of the picture is so realistic that, in an advance showing to a selected audience, "Big Bill" Edwards, famed guard and "playboy of Princeton," leapt to his feet, shouted: "There he goes." The audience re-echoed with cries of "Come...
...alarm clock clamored impatiently. The President leapt from his bed. It was 5 a. m. With his faithful guide Ormond Doty and Secret Service men, he drove 35 miles to Essex county, hiked through rugged woods to Ausable River. By 7 a. m., his boots were in the brook, his bait was on the hook. (In Franklin county, where White Pine Camp is, the game laws decree that trout fishing shall cease on Sept. 1, but in Essex county the deadline is Sept...
...eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple...
...conservative Yale law-dons, as stumbling old "Kit" Langdell had done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney-you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp† Co.; in Manhattan. Died. Charles William Eliot, 92; at Northeast Harbor, Maine...
...eagerly. Five hundred and two armed men followed. They shook trees, stuck sticks up hollow logs- suddenly licked parched lips as the hounds began to whimper. They were looking for Judge Powell, Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond Bird, 31, Negro; hanged his black body to a tree...