Word: swims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writer. Richard Halliburton, who writes travel stories with the sprightliness of an old spinster's darling, last week displayed a letter from Governor Meriwether Lewis Walker of the Panama Canal Zone, permitting him to try to swim the 50 miles of the Canal. He started. No long-distance swimmer, this self-generator of publicity intended to interrupt his feat every time he grew tired. A soldier in a motor boat accompanied him to shoot at any obnoxious alligators. Trans-canal steamship passage was not halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred...
...hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again the same way, right now," said Bernice Zittenfeld, talking for herself and her sister, Phyllis...
Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...
...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...
Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...