Word: marathonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plodding wearily past newspaper boys whose Advertisers already announced his victory, past a multitude whose cheers celebrated the extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened...
Cliff Bricker of Gait, Ontario, marathon runner, insured his legs, knees, feet, and toes last week...
...works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning on exhibition, while not so numerous as those of her husband, are equally valuable. Two of Mrs. Browning's works to be seen in the Memorial Room, "The Battle of Marathon," and "Essay on Mind," were written when she was still in her teens. One of her poems, "The Runaway Slave," is the rarest work in the exhibition, and a collection of her sonnets, privately printed in 1847, with a facsimile of a manuscript of one of the sonnets, is probably the most valuable. Two presentation copies of her works, one, "Casa Guidi Windows...
...them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop in his native Germany, sprinted doggedly, passed...
...plodded painfully through the water. Favorite after favorite burned up and was pulled into his pilot boat. Michael Hamburg labored miles, indomitably behind the tinkling bell of his pilot boat. He, stone blind, finally gave up. One man was seized with mumps. Edward Keating, winner of the Lake George marathon, was dragged out, cramped. Lee J. Smith, legless swimmer, lost his chance for the prize by rescuing a drowning opponent. Byron Summers, the California "flying fish," swam to the tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles...