Word: swims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nightdress out into the saloon where I found the Prince and Princess also in night clothes. . . . Water began coming in on top of me through the portholes. The Prince aided me out on deck, returning to get the Princess. . . . They had told a sailor to swim with me, as the captain said that the ship was sinking so fast it was impossible to make any use of the lifeboats...
...were about 200 yards from the rocky shore, so I told the sailor I would swim by myself, not that I was brave, but I like swimming. . . . The Princess, who does not swim well, was helped by two sailors, and was almost the last to jump...
...hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England, of the U. S.. of the world, would give neither a fig nor a fish for their story...
...Elisabeth Rethberg must grow flowers and swim twice a day. Her house and garden are in Winnetka, near the lake shore. Mme. Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli will play again La Compana Sommersa (Respighi), which had its Metropolitan premiere last season...
Arne Borg (Sweden) in Los Angeles, broke his own world's record for the 1,000-yd. swim. The new record...