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LEAP YEAR
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No Life for a Lady
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By Agnes Morley
Cleaveland Late 1800s -
Early 1900s (If you know
the exact date
please email it to me
here.
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MELBA'S
MEMORIES
LEAP
YEAR
DANCE
There
were
lots of
activities
around
the
school,
of
course,
you
know,
and
parties
and
dances
and
different
things.
They'd
have a
Leap
Year
Dance
and the
girls
would
ask
the
fellas
this
time
instead
of the
fellas
askin'
the
girls.
So I
asked
some boy
that I
knew
liked
me. I
didn't
ask a
guy that
was
expecting
me to
ask
him. We
doubled
and went
with
another
girl,
Lyndal,
and
Harold
Beecher.
We gave
them a
corsage
made of
carrots
and
onions
with the
tails on
them so
you
could
tie the
ribbon
on them.
I don't
know how
come
goin'
home, we
didn't.
Maybe
they got
a ride
with
someone.
Anyway,
the
dance
was
great.
It was
lots of
fun. So
I walked
him
home.
And then
I was
afraid
to go
home
alone
and he
had to
walk me
all the
way to
my
house,
then,
and go
back.
But it
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A
math book from 1758 uses Leap
Year
in one of the math lessons.
NOTE: Leap Year has a capital L
and Y.
ARITHMETICK IN whole & broken
numbers
DIGESTED AFTER a NEW-METHOD
AND CHIEFLY ADAPTED TO THE
TRADE OF IRELAND BY ELLIAS
VOSTER
THE FIFTH EDITION CAREFULLY
REVISED
BY DANIEL VOSTER CORKE PRINTED
FOR
D.VOSTER AND SOLD AT HIS HOUSE
IN
BROWN STREET
1758 |
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Henry Handel
Richardson
Growing Pains
AND WOMEN MUST
WEEP
"...And when
there was a
“leap-year dance”
where the ladies
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WILD HORSES IN MY
BLOOD - EVA
PENDLETON HENDERSON |
Eva Pendleton
Henderson, a member
of the historical
Chisum family,
recounts her life on
the windy border
country of southern
New Mexico in the
1890s when it was
still a territory.
On
page 51, which is
where chapter 13
begins, she writes
of a
Leap Year dance
in 1912. |
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History of Friedrich
II of Prussia V 8
by Thomas Carlyle
Crown-Prince had to
resume his Kammer
work at Custrin, and
see the Buildings at
Carzig, for a three
months longer,
till some
arrangements in the
Regiment Goltz were
perfected, and
finishing
improvements given
to it. But "on the
last
day of February"
(29th)
1732 being leap-year),
his Royal Highness's
Commission to be
Colonel Commandant
of said
Regiment is made
out; and he
proceeds, in
discharge of the
same, to Ruppin,
where his men lie.
And so puts off the
pike-gray coat, and
puts on the military
blue one, [Preuss, i.
69.]--never to quit
it again, as turned
out. |
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Otto Hake Gets
Engaged
Among
the
newspaper
clippings
that one
may
find,
crumbling
and
yellowing,
in the
archives
of
the
P&C are
a pair
of
articles
pertaining
to the
leap-year
wedding
engagement
of Otto
Hake (b.
1876,
Ulm,
Germany,
d. 1965,
Chicago).
Here's
one of
them
(date
and
newspaper
unknown):
ONE
ARTIST'S
MODEL
POPS
AT
LEAP
YEAR
DANCE
Palette
and
Chisel
Club
Bachelors
Otherwise
Go
Free
Because
Girls
Shyly
Ignore
Their
Rights
The
Palette
and
Chisel
Club's
leap
year
dance
and
proposal
bee
stung
just
one
bachelor.
The
bachelor
girls,
most
of
whom
were
professional
models,
proved
shy.
Otto
Haake,
an
artist,
was
the
single
victim
of
girlish
wiles.
Miss
Olga
Ponorska,
a
Russian
art
student
and
model,
who
has
posed
occasionally
for Haake,
arranged
a
pillow
in
front
of
his
chair
and
popped
down
on
her
knees.
This
was
the
form
of
her
proposal:
"Otto,
despite
your
imbecile
smile,
your
many
shortcomings
in
personal
getup
and
your
paucity
of
intellect,
I
love
you.
Will
you
be
mine?
And
Otto
in
his
best
manner
responded,
"Chass!"
meaning
"yes."
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Anna Hansen Hayes - The Early
Twin Falls Tract 1904
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The Diaries of Lottie Price,
1914-1986
February 9, 1940
- Mon & I went to B.O. in eve to
the I.O.O.F. dance at the Hall.
Good crowd out. Leap Year dance.
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THE STRAIGHT SCOOP - (Click
image at right to see title)
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Escondido
Elks Lodge:
Members will
have a
"Leap Year
Dance"
from 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday
February 27,
2004
at the lodge,
2430 S.
Escondido Blvd.,
Escondido.
Reservations are
required.
Information:
(760) 745-1687.
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The San Francisco Chronicle
- 1932
Jan. 22: A mystery woman pulls a
prank that throws the Peninsula
into a spin over the Burlingame
Country Club's
leap year dance.
The event presents the
opportunity for women in the
community to leave their
husbands at home
and invite
anyone they choose to escort
them to the party. It has been
the custom for women to invite
men who
are their age. But the
mystery woman made calls and
presented herself as a younger
woman interested in inviting
an
older man to the dance.
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