Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race for a $25,000 side bet. So far no one has bothered to accept. He uses a strange 76-to-the-minute stroke which causes him to be called "the Italian windmill." Thick and loquacious, Swimmer Gambi celebrated his victory by going to Montreal for another marathon swim this week. Then he plans a trip to Kentucky to buy more trotters before he goes home to accept his commission as an infantry lieutenant...
...stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which he guzzled 1,080 steins, missed his goal by 1½ Ib. by only reducing from 259½ to 211. Said he: "I feel swell." He was lugged...
...Marathon...
...Playgoer spent a very pleasant evening last Thursday at the Walkathon-Marathon in Dedham. There are some people who probably wouldn't appreciate a Walkathon-Marathon; and there may be one or two who do not even know what a Walkathon-Marathon is. We hasten to state, with perhaps a little pride in work well done, that we both know what a W-M is and appreciate it thoroughly. After some hours in the closely packed arena we feel almost as though we knew all there was to know about so fascinating a subject...
Then followed Bill Cunningham telling tales of life at Dartmouth and the Boston Post, Johnny Kelly, winner of the 1935 B.A.A. Marathon, Adrian O'Brien, radio singer, and other acts of entertainment...