Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aldwinkle saw herself as a princess, surrounded by a court of poets, artists, philosophers. She desired that beautiful women should swim through her great salons and gardens, glowing with love for the men of genius who might be found lounging, there. Among the beautiful she had collected, at Vezza were an Aldwinkle niece, one Irene, who preferred composing her own chemises to hemming her own sonnets but did the latter to please Mrs. Aldwinkle; Miss Mary Thriplow, novelist, who wanted to be "simple and deep" and whose efforts to please made her, at last, a hypocrite even to hypocrisy; among...
Learns to Swim...
...Newport Beach, Cal., one Edward Dillinger sat on the sands with his fiancee. He could not swim, was afraid of water. She taunted him, ran Into the surf, was carried out, began to drown. Edward leaped to his feet, plunged into the Pacific, "suddenly learned to swim several hundred feet," fished out the taunting fiancee, escorted her home...
...entrained for their chateaux at Rocquencourt and Colombes; pulled out of the Cherbourg station, flinging pennies, nickels, dimes to a curiosity-loud populace. Set down at their chateaux, they unpacked their luggage, recovered their land-legs, settled down to a fortnight of final conditioning. The swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land...
...meter free-style swim: Johnny Weissmuller of Chicago, 50% sec., at Indianapolis...