Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women, sprinters, jumpers, pole vaulters, hurdlers, shot putters, hammer throwers, wrestlers, oarsmen, swimmers, divers, gymnasts, fencers, yachtsmen, horsemen, cyclists, boxers, officials, etc., etc., boarded the Roosevelt, planned to live aboard the liner until its return August 19. With the U. S. Olympic team went three athletes, not team members, crossing as stowaways. Famed Sprinter Frank Hussey hid in a bathtub, was removed to the brig, ransomed by friends on board...
...Arctic follows a line drawn, roughly, from the extreme northern point of Norway across the island of Spitsbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska. If you fly about half this distance and look down, as likely as not you will see the block of ice which happens to be the North Pole. At that point you may shake hands, as Pilgrims Byrd and Bennett did in May, 1926. Or you may bare your head, as Pilgrims Nobile, Amundsen, Ellsworth, etc., did in May, 1926. Or you may fly sternly on, as Pilgrims Wilkins and Eielson did in April...
...Polar Pilgrim General Umberto Nobile and crew of 15 leave Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, for North Pole, in dirigible Italia...
...Italia circles North Pole...
...causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner (a tobacconist's daughter), are, by a lamentable coincidence, citizens of the same city, Cincinnati. Both have recently won fellowships in Dresden and refused...