Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several new records were set in both meets. In the 300 yd, medley, Graham Cummin, Dario Berrizi, and Dan McKay splashed their way to a new pool and state record in the fast time...
...pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol...
...Graham Cummin's easy stroke will undoubtedly get him home ahead of almost all his opponents this year in the back-stroke. There will be a snag down at Princeton in Al Van de Weghe. Nevertheless, Graham's time trials have caused Coach Ulen to look at his stopwatch with a glum expression on his face, and then scan the pool balcony for possible Yale scouts. Dick Tregaskis is working hard daily, and Freshman Coach Peterson and Ulen are trying to persuade a little more speed out of him. Harry Southwick and Jack Kennedy are up from last year...
...people can witness these blood curdling photos by Norman Alley without realizing immediately that the yellow scourge of the Japanese must be wiped off the earth. As commentator Graham McNamee so succinctly puts it, it was a savage affront to American prestige and to rights fully protected by international law and definite treaties. And so on and so on far, far into the night...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...