Leaping Lena

English Proper noun Leaping Lena s A nickname for a vehicle. en Popular Mechanics 1930 July 129 An Outboard “Leaping Lena” Dick Cole http://books.google.com/books?id=T-QDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&dq=gass%20%22leaping%20lena%22&pg=RA1-PA129#v=onepage&q=gass%20%22leaping%20lena%22&f=false The outboard motor is forever performing new stunts. The illustrations depict its latest—driving a real “Leaping Lena”—.... en Popular Science David M. Stearns Leaping Lena Joins the Army http://books.google.com/books?id=VCcDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA52&dq=leaping%20lena%20-billboard&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena%20-billboard&f=false 1941 October 52 All branches of the service find jobs for the versatile quarter-ton liaison truck, a car of unlimited possibilities in war. en International Shrine Clowns Association, 25th Anniversary Turner Publishing 1989 38 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ll59WnoaPX4C&lpg=PA38&dq=leaping%20lena&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena&f=false With the motor racing and the horns blaring, “Leaping Lena” would go around in circles, to the delight of the spectators. en Becoming Myself: A Passage of Grace Sara F. Munday 2009 Dorrance Publishing 255 http://books.google.com/books?id=V339FRohuMMC&lpg=PA255&dq=leaping%20lena&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena&f=false That dear car's name began as “Leaping Lena,” which was not an original name with us. Lots of old cars were called “Leaping Lena.” But when the radiator began to leak, the children appropriately changed her name to “Leaking Lena.” A nickname for someone or something that leaps. en Time Levinsky v. Walker 1932 May 9 19 19 Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk. en 1/17/1954 South Africa Claims Lead In World Frog Jumping The New York Times http://search.proquest.com/docview/113028867/abstract/13D361A9AB7579D3626/13 18 The press here today proclaimed that Leaping Lena, a Natal Province frog, had beaten the Americans and broken the world's frog-jumping record at the Frog Olympics at Capetown. en Leaping Lena Sheila Kelly Welch 2000 Rigby en Rednecks: There's a New Sheriff in Town Lez Bromfield Dorrance Publishing 2012 138 http://books.google.com/books?id=XLpJ_J0Jc4UC&lpg=PA138&dq=leaping%20lena&pg=PA138#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena&f=false However, not to be outdone, Harry's frog “Leaping Lena” took the Frog Leaping Championship by jumping nearly two feet farther than Clancy Coughburn's “Cutie Pie.” en 2013 w:William H. Gass Middle C Knopf 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=B31q4DsSvR4C&lpg=PA7&dq=gass%20%22leaping%20lena%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=gass%20%22leaping%20lena%22&f=false ... anyone who was Jewish and had any sense would put on Catholic habits in a thrice if they could get away with it, or twirl like a dervish, or leap like any Leaping Lena, if it would do the trick. The name given to a 1954 Cold War hero pigeon. en A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917–2007 26 http://books.google.com/books?id=Iqvss1iSq84C&lpg=PA26&dq=leaping%20lena%20pigeon&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena%20pigeon&f=false Government Printing Office 2008 During the Cold War Era, a German pigeon, Leaping Lena, made a fantastic flight through the Iron Curtain from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia in 1954. The name given to a 1964 Vietnam War counterinsurgency operation in Laos, later renamed Project DELTA. en The Secret War Against Hanoi Richard H. Shultz, Jr. HarperCollins 2000 212 http://books.google.com/books?id=mGXgXY5eCtkC&lpg=PA212&dq=leaping%20lena&pg=PA212#v=onepage&q=leaping%20lena&f=false In roughly thirty days, SOG had several teams ready to "cross the fence" in an operation code-named “Leaping Lena”.