Word: calnan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual...
...quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan of the U. S. Navy, selected because he has been on four U. S. Olympic fencing teams, recited the oath for the entire host of contestants, his right hand solemnly and correctly raised, his left one on a corner of the U. S. flag...