Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon the greasy floor. Of this daring feat no tongman seems to tire...
...Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy's opponent in the Wimbleton finals in 1905, 1906, 1907. put out Miss Marion Williams of California, 6-1, 6-4. Miss Joan Fry, 19-year old Wimbleton (England) finalist, was no small...
Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer training to swim the English Channel, last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies...
Tired and sore of foot, they there constructed rafts of logs, planks, boxes, and essayed to float down the Chitina River to McCarthy. This feat one raft accomplished without let or hindrance from rock or snag. The other, skippered by Explorer McCarthy, capsized in boiling rapids, left its passengers a 70-mile trudge...
...Brussels, there was a bustle after the departure for the U. S. of Soprano Elizabeth Day, who recently sang songs in various languages-first in French, then in Italian, English, Spanish, Hebrew and finally, for the first time since the War, in German. This daring feat was received with applause...