Word: marathonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband from the base of the flagpole by a system of hoisting cords. She recalled to newsgatherers that he won the nickname "Shipwreck" after surviving the Titanic disaster (1912), then entered the U. S. Navy, and, after the War, became a steeplejack, human fly, airplane stunt performer and "marathon rooster...
...thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...
...approximately 25 miles, from Marathon to Athens, with news of a Greek victory over the Persians...
Clarence H. De Mar of Melrose, Mass., 38, who sets type six days and teaches Sunday School the seventh, last week jogged over 26 miles and 385 yards of warm asphalt in 2 hr. 40 min. 221/5 sec., won the annual marathon of the Boston A. A. for the fifth time...
...spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim the 23-mile channel between the California mainland (Los Angeles) and Santa Catalina Island, in practice for a $25,000 marathon swim announced for the near future by William Wrigley Jr., gum man, chairman of the Santa Catalina Island Co. Swimmer Radowich saw the shark too, but paid no heed. He had enough to think about, for placid though the waters looked, they were full of treacherous tide-rips and cold...