Word: somersault
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...Jose, Calif., M. T. Moran. 62, stage acrobat, turned a somersault over the back of his car when it was struck by a Southern Pacific R. R. train, saved himself from certain death. "Guess I've got a good racket at that," said M. T. Moran...
Born in Norfolk, Va., with the fairly respectable name of Margaret Upton, Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner was only 15 when she ran away, fascinated, with Trick-Cyclist Heurtin, who promised to teach her how to turn a somersault on a bicycle and thus become a great actress. Mr. Heurtin was like a father to her, the simp, but in Colorado she met Everett Archer, who fluttered her; she married him, discovered that "Love is not beautiful and romantic; it is horrible and disgusting." Two days were enough; she went back to Norfolk with the apprehensive Mr. Heurtin...
...mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation...
...Somersault. Col. Lindbergh circled above the field several times, making preparations. Exactly what went on in the cabin is not known. But the windows were put down to avoid flying glass, and Col. Lindbergh undoubtedly packed cushions around Miss Morrow. According to one plausible report, he said to her: "When we land, we'll overturn. Don't be afraid...
Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...