Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday. This sixth cay was a day of untrammeled freedoom, and the young wanderer doffed his assumed naivete and reveled. From cops, and robbers over the back fences in the morning to surreptitions ice cream cones at the corner (on uncle's nickels) in the afternoon, and the glorious splash in the tub at night, Saturday was a grand day of Back To Nature...
...exhibits, and himself exhibiting a healthy interest in the things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...
There was a mighty splash as 173 swimmers, most of them naked, all of 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...
...House of Shadows. This last drop in the season's bucket of mystery plays makes no great splash. It explains a haunted house tenanted by a mad miser. For years he had booed off all visitors until the hero and. heroine dared his confines. Especially unfortunate is the fatty dialogue that weighs the play down with uneventful explanation...
Vagabondage time is here, but it is not necessarily toward the lecture room that one's feet would wind their sprightly way. Mental vagabondage is also on hand, and a splash of sunshine on the arm of the chair or a glimpse of blue sky is all that is necessary for a tour of Europe, a flight around the bases, or a cross channel swim. For a couple of weeks at least one Student Vagabond will not have to give minute attention to the lectures he visits in his morning peregrinations. For today's program, however, he chooses to feature...