Word: speedster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Lady Dorothy Whittall Campbell, by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell, now heading a British motorcycle militia unit (TIME, Sept. 25); in London...
After pocketing the $16,000 first-prize money, Speedster Turner, who has been chasing pylons for eleven years, announced that the sun had set on his giddy racing career. "I can't keep stretching my luck," he drawled. With a decade's earnings of $65,000 in prize money and many times that amount 'for testimonials, magazine articles, movie contracts and other perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion, Speedster Turner plans to cash in on his fame by starting a flying school...
...Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an average speed of 141.74 m.p.h., setting a new world's record for speed on water; at Lake Coniston, England...
...superlatives used by Reader Lawrence Griswold [TIME, June 26] in describing a bonefish (i.e., "world's greatest gamefish," "most elusive speedster") called to mind a tropical piscatory phenomenon known as the ''banana fish...
...privilege reserved for only a few expert anglers. Does TIME know neither how to catch the wily bonefish nor the names of aonefish authorities? Name any given six past masters, one of whom might be willing to tell us how and with what to catch this most elusive speedster. Maybe this is asking too much since TIME did say where and when...