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...Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City convention and helped mightily to carry the State for the Republican presidential nominee. When in 1929 President Hoover asked him if he would serve as Assistant Secretary of War, "Pat" Hurley flashed his warm Irish smile and replied: "Mr. President, I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get that office." When the Hurleys arrived in Washington they were so overawed by the capital's society that they used to practice their entrances and exits at a mirror before dining...
Last week, Mrs. Huddleston returned to Lake Tahoe. Clad in an unbecoming one-piece bathing suit and a coating of grease, she waddled into the water at Glenbrook, Nev., at 7:45 one morning, began to swim an American crawl toward Tahoe Tavern, Calif., 16 miles away. Almost immediately, she began to encounter difficulties. The old man in her pilot boat misdirected her. A wind came up and blew her eight miles off her course. Her goggles began to leak, water to blind her. After the first eight hours, she suffered from acute nausea and pains in her arm. Twice...
Swimmers. Everyone expected Eleanor Holm to win the 300-yd. medley race. Her specialty is the back stroke used on the middle lap, after a 100-yd. breast stroke start and before the 100-yd. crawl at the finish. Instead, wiry little Katherine Rawls wiggled to a 5-yd. lead in the first lap, held it through the second, crawled farther ahead in the last lap and won in 4:45⅛ four seconds faster than the previous Holm world's record. Next day Minnow Rawls won the 220-yd. breast stroke championship with a new U. S. record...
With half the Marine patrol dead, Sergeant Palrang ordered Private Mack Hutcherson to crawl back, try to get reinforcements. He never got through - two bullets laid him out with a shattered...
tentacles crawl for meat...