Word: divers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marian ("Swede") Mansfield, 18, Northwestern University sophomore, diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost...
Henry Fitts, diver, received a crushing blow when he banged his head on the springboard at the Columbia trials. He is back now, fully recovered...
Eliot's string of victories may be attributed to a well balanced team, to point-pickers Cann, a diver, and Dodge, a breast-stroker, and to relayers Leonard, Cann, Welles, and Dodge...
During the day the gashed body of a river captain floated up, and a diver brought up the corpse of a woman. Other dead, found when the bus had been raised by cranes that night: two men, ten women...
...with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes...