Word: swam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
Guzzling orange juice, milk and broth, munching chocolate, losing 17 pounds, Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland last week in 22 hours, 45 minutes. He had previously failed to finish in William Wrigley Jr.'s $25,000 nautical derby over the same course which 17-year-old George Young of Toronto completed in 15 hr. 44 min. (TIME...
Swim. Muscular women in snug suits swam lustily at the Women's National A. A. U. indoor championships in Buffalo last week. Three of them broke four world's records: Agnes Geraghty went through 220 yards of water in 3 min. 20 sec.; Adelaide Lambert swam 300 yards in 4 min., 34.4 sec.; Martha Norelius swam 400 yards in 5 min., 14 sec.; 500 yards...
...reward Babbits with the use of the Marines; he can make them peers with opposition from none but the House of Lords--a simpler and cheaper process. And Americans are great royalty lovers. They will greet a queen or a crown prince almost as effusively as a woman who swam twenty-five miles in cold water...
...caretakers swelling the number of swan-attendants to 1,043. Daily these pampered birds waddled forth, led by a cream-colored First Swan, between lines of soldiers. For an hour the road along which the swans waddled was blocked to other traffic. Then they waddled into their sacred pool, swam like 300 small white clouds serenely on the waters, quacked, splashed, fought, cohabited and waddled back at eve to their holy swan house...