Word: swam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first woman to finish would get $15,000, but that if a woman won she would get $25,000 and the men nothing. And yet most of the best distance swimmers in the U. S. had taken his dare. There was Henry F. Sullivan who swam the English Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher...
George Washington, as all the world knows, crossed the Delaware with folded arms in a small boat, rowed by his ragged orderlies among vast cakes of ice. Last week, as part of a sesquicentennial celebration, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, swimmer, mother, swam across at the same place, on the same day of the year, in 10½ minutes. Mrs. Schoemmell is said to be of Hessian descent...
Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough. Later she dined at the captain's table. Princess Ileana, clad in a grey one-piece bathing suit, swam several times in the ship's pool, accompanied by Prince Nicholas...
...refresh herself prior to visiting the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, Queen Marie hastened to the Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...bought the buffalo herd last April with the idea of selling the animals to zoos. Not only were the creatures too wild to catch, but the five-mile stretch of water between island and mainland was too shallow for barges, too deep for motor trucks. If John E. Dooley swam and waded his small herd out to the island, that was a feat in itself. Rounding up the Dooley herd's 300 descendants and making them swim back would be impossible...