Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found this valuable property a white elephant. Local Chinese merchants who habitually dealt through the British banks discovered their contact and means of trading with the outside world cut off. Manufacture, commerce, shipping were at a standstill. The few Britons who remained had barricaded themselves in a steel bank vault. Soon blotchy hysterical posters appeared: "Death to the British slaves who are trying tc strangle us by stopping our commerce...
...Worcester and the greatest two-miler in the land when he finished college E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of this year's team, never was a great star, and yet he has won three Intercollegiate Mile Championships in four starts. L. O. Combs '26 had done 9.2 in the vault at school, and in his Senior year did 12.7, a gain of 3.5 in four years
...Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils; $800,000; Napoleon's cousin. Money! Power! Ambition! He could and would show the money to Bartender Tammen in the bank vault. Soon Tammen was back in Denver with some of the Corsican's boodle to see what he could do. His first few projects collapsed. Then the old Denver Post, a fly-by-night sheet, offered itself for sale at $12,500. Bartender Tammen talked $25,000 more...
...aged 22, had been missing two days. He ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where she was earning...
...which form, as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life...