Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Beach, Calif...
...jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came in the form of a rowboat. When the distracted Courtneys had assured themselves of their daughter's safety, they turned, grateful, then dismayed. . . . Far down the beach they saw the long fishpole, the dog and the dripping boy. At their hails, he broke into a run, disappeared...
...Coney Island, at seven o'clock one evening, surly breakers crowded over Morris Ravmitzky, 17. The undertow pressed its oily brine down into his lungs, dragged his body out for the depth crabs to fumble over. For three days and nights the boy's mother paced the beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato was carried...
Thirty soldiers rushed to the ropes, lowered themselves down the steep cliff, waited on the beach. Finally out of the water, a stocky son of Siegfried staggered, shook himself, collapsed. The Britishers worked on him, kneaded his muscles, rubbed his lungs. Consciousness dawned; the German asked...
...from Egypt, an Englishman. It was 11:32 p. m. Three hours later the Egyptian collapsed. The next afternoon the Englishman gave up one mile from the Shakespeare Cliffs at Dover. At 3:10 p. m. the daughter of the Vikings stumbled on the sands of Dover beach, collapsed. She was the first mother to swim the English Channel. Her time was an hour slower than Gertrude Ederle's. Mrs. Corson (nee Amelia Gade) revived, told the crowd around her: "I was determined to make it or go down. I have to make some money for my kids...