Word: somersaulters
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...Majesty's Government must do the obvious and had carried all before him by brushing aside the nervous scruples of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Once again the intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar. As one London evening paper observed with jocular gusto, "The only essential is that the troops shall be the best and smartest we have...
...soldier, with a bayonet through his stomach, is cocked for a back-somersault; another goes out upside down on barbed wire (Last Position at Neuville...
...Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg hospital doubted whether Maranville would ever play baseball again...
Alfredo Codona, aerialist supreme in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus, slipped into a bathrobe, hoped he would find his brother's hands waiting to catch him when he spun dizzily out of his triple somersault from the sweeping end of a flying trapeze 60 ft. above the centre ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He usually manages to find them, misses every two or three months. The Codona Brothers* have been holding hands for over 20 years, have been grabbing at each other after Alfredo's triple somersault several times a week since...
Performance is even more important to a circus than novelty and this year John Ringling has banked more heavily on it than ever. There are no new major performers. But Con Colleano, the only man on earth who can turn a front somersault and land upright on a tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what...