Word: marathoning
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...Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Yelped the press: "Roosevelt is a trail blazer of criminal unscrupulousness . . . Aggressor No. 1 . . . a marathon runner in his pursuit of war. . . . Roosevelt thus further proves that the provocatory assault on little Iceland was only a beginning...
...universe of knowledge. Many Catholics are inclined to apologize for them; but I think that is unwise. They are embarrassing but not significant, and quite harmless as long as their tantrums do not lead them to break the furniture. They will disappear in time like those other exhibitionists - the marathon dancers and flagpole sitters - who amused America for a while and vanished...
...Walter G. Kendall, 86-year-old veteran of bike marathon, who loaned the club the ancient bikes, will start the race at Dunster House at 4 o'clock tomorrow. Appropriately dressed girls will follow the pedallers in Maxwells, Franklins, Liberties and other horseless carriages dating from the turn of the century...
...finishing the scorching grind under seven hours they had won exactly $1.36 from the bets of fellow Gold Coasters who had taken Souder up on a joking boast that he could run the marathon. Although Leslie Pawson had annexed the ivy wreath, these two stalwarts were much more satisfied with their spoils of victory. When last heard from, they were seen starting out with two Lasell lasses who had cheered them through Auburndale...