Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
Americana, wherein retiring Gloria Swanson presents her Marquis, and Lillian Gish (leading a Duell life) her George Jean...
...Edsall, Chairman, Miss Jane Curtis; Robert Ford, Miss Morjorie Morrill; R. H. Schmit, Miss Lillian Tibbetts; W. M. Whitehill, Miss Edna Learned; D. F. Robinson, Miss Rebecca Thomas; H. C. Downes, Miss Margaret Smith...
...Salter, Chairman, Miss Anne Moran; A. G. Carrillo, Miss Pearl Fairweather: W. M. Reynolds, Miss Lavist Allen: R. J. Feist, Miss Lillian Lueas; Andrew Fuller, Miss Elinor Clark; A. C. Burrel, Miss Satterlee...