Word: surf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more in the grease pail. "Put your bathing suit on," she directed over her shoulder. More grease was applied to the strong stumpy body, clad now in a thin racing suit, cut away deeply under the arms. Gertrude Ederle (pronounced "Ed-er-ly") ran across the beach into the surf, briefly acknowledging the cheers of the crowd that had come to see her off. It was cold, she remarked as she felt the water, colder than last year. She struck out for England. When, after 14 hours and 31 minutes in the water, she had landed at Kingsdown Beach, beating...
...attended the 82nd convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Manhattan last week knew that music which "soothes the savage beast," is also a sedative to the insane. Perhaps it is memory echoing up through a file of sea-rocked protoplasm. Certainly music, as well as rhythmic, beating surf, is calming...
...rear did not understand. They kept coming on. The front line stopped. The ranks behind rippled and deepened. Soon the street was filled with a discolored tide that washed up over the gutters, into doorways and alleys, lapping uneasily and stirring with a vague noise like the rumor of surf. What were the cops trying to pull off? What was the big idea...
...rattle of hoofs. Fifteen mounted policemen had come up. They made brief sorties into the surf. Haggard men and women scrambled away from the iron shoes. No, someone was stepped on that time. A girl. The iron shoes stamped by. The sea, pushed from behind, pressed closer than ever...
...Passaic. Nobody knew what had occasioned it. The strikers had not been disorderly. They had sound legal right to march down Dayton Street, provided they broke no windows, gave vent to no loud jeering at Bomber Zober. But although the sound of that human surf, following the chief's experiments with tear gas, had begun to be ominous, the crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys...