Word: dover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world; a famed metropolitan daily recently referred to the "channel-swimming game," thereby placing this activity in the same category with such recognized diversions as "the advertising game," "the cloak-and-suit game," etc. Last week three swimmers attempted to traverse the angry scar of seas between Calais and Dover-Lieut. Col. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V. C., Mile. Jeanne Sion, Miss Lillian Harrison. Last week's aspirants were veteran swimmers; all, after tremendous exertions, failed...
...began at 8 o'clock one night last week to swim from Cape Gris Nez. He swam all night. At dawn a patchy fog, a westerly wind, a small rain. He swam on. At 11:30 in the morning he was a mile and a half from Dover. His trainer turned a drawn countenance upon the party...
...King and Queen went to Dover and crossed over to Calais. They refused the French Government's offer of a special train and proceeded by train de luxe to Genoa, where the royal yacht Victoria and Albert waited to take their Majesties on a Mediterranean cruise...
...Author. A. A. Milne was born, though few believe it, in 1882. Before the War, he was Assistant Editor of Punch; after the War he wrote plays, six of which- The Dover Road, Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, The Lucky One, The Great Broxopp, The Romantic Age- have been produced in Manhattan...
...Dover Road" at the Copley, pastoral drama by A. A. Milne, noted English author...