Word: drowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newport Beach, Cal., one Edward Dillinger sat on the sands with his fiancee. He could not swim, was afraid of water. She taunted him, ran Into the surf, was carried out, began to drown. Edward leaped to his feet, plunged into the Pacific, "suddenly learned to swim several hundred feet," fished out the taunting fiancee, escorted her home...
Indeed it was not unlike the episode of the Ark, when the delegates came to Cleveland. They came to escape from the flood of ballots that is sure to drown somebody in November. They came to board the craft which they hoped would carry them safely upon the surface of the flood. They were a motley crew? a princess from Oceania, a learned historian-statesman from Massachusetts, a much investigated ex-Cabinet officer from Ohio and many less marked personages. They trooped into Public Hall, which may be called the Ark, to place themselves in the care of the astute...
...continued dragging of the river since the day of Proctor's disappearance has been without result, out the police still scout the theory that Proctor did not drown, and his parents likewise believe that dragging must eventually disclose the body...
...That these students drown the church-bells with their singing, have ghouled the churchyards, vandalized the vaults...
...manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired effect for by showing Yale that its Bowl was a place where "mothers and fathers, sisters, classmates, alumni will cheer and shout and scream to drown the misery of their aching, mangled, bleeding sons and brothers", Mr. Gundelfinger has made Yale lose its grip--except, of course, for victories over Princeton and Harvard this year...