Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time it was the world's record for 100 metres, which she swam 1:18.2. A crowd of 55,000 wanted to see what would happen between Minnow Rawls and Georgia Coleman in the platform dive. Again Minnow Rawls surprised everyone: she withdrew. Georgia Coleman's running swan dive looked too short and the title went to Dorothy Poynton of Los Angeles, who wore a white bathing suit, a red-&-white bandanna around her head...
...ling Yui is a partner of Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, which last week applied for membership in the New York Stock Exchange. If the application is accepted, the Stock Exchange will admit its first Chinese member-firm partner. Though Swan, Culbertson & Fritz will have its Manhattan office with Hayden, Stone & Co., the main office will be in Shanghai where the firm and Partner Khe-ling Yui have done business for a long time...
Joel Barber carved his own wooden decoys: a swan, two mallards, a pintail...
When Major Sands, from the poop deck of the trading-ship Centaur, just under way from Antigua to England, sees the 40-gun Black Swan sidling up, he trembles for himself and for his charge. He is escorting back to England lovely Priscilla. daughter and heiress of Antigua's onetime governor, the late Sir John Harradine. The Centaur's captain maneuvers his ship like a fool and the only other passenger, de Bernis, is known to have been a buccaneer...
...brother. De Bernis, an old associate of Tom Leach's, was on his way to tell him of a plate fleet soon to sail for Spain. To withhold Leach from treachery, he withholds all information as to whence the fleet will sail, insists that Leach careen the Black Swan on a certain island's beach and scrape her bottom clean for the fast fight to come. On the island trouble brews. Leach makes goat's eyes at Priscilla, would murder de Bernis but for his men, who want a lick at that Spanish treasure. When finally Leach...