Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1915 to 1925, Joie Ray was considered the best mile runner in the world. In 1925 he tied Paavo Nurmi for the indoor record?4 min. 12 sec. Three years later he astonished everyone by making good his boast to become a marathon runner. He was on the U. S. Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving...
...keep the wolf from the door with medals. ... I have to eat and that's why I'm doing this. And you can take it from me, I've got this marathon dance thing sewed up. I passed through the squirrel stage, when you get hopeless and exhausted long ago. ... I could go out and break 4:25 for the mile right now. . . . That $1,000 prize is as good as in my pocket right now. . . . This thing...
...Fairfax Airport for his 73Oth consecutive daily flight, a two-year record of flying in all kinds of weather. Sometimes his would be the only plane to leave the ground, so thick was the rain, snow or fog. Although critics might liken his routine to year-round-swimming or marathon tree-sitting, Dr. Brock is not publicity-hungry. He is smart enough to know that his Specialty Optical Co. does not suffer from his own conspicuousness (he was recently received by President Hoover) but he is personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial tour to every State capital...
...peoples of the world have spent long hours, fortunes, and man-power in seeking speed achievements, unheard-of magnitudes in buildings, extraordinary height attainments, and a multitude of limits including marathon dance and pole-sitting records. Naturally the records lately signalized by the British are not in the category of the latter. But there may be a connection between the attitude and practices of the English of contemporary times and their unenviable and unfortunate governmental and economic crisis. Perhaps the robust and thoughtless attitude which the United States has spread abroad with its produce and tourists has had an appreciable...
Just To Remind You, a sturdy expose of the U. S. laundry racket. Then there was Ladies Of Creation, in which the interior decorating business was delicately satirized (see p. 54). After that came The Man On Stilts, which attempted to skewer the mild insanity which surrounds flagpole sitters, marathon dancers and the like...