Word: swum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapter containing the least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...
...large woman, momentarily dazed by exertion, then remembered she was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, proprietor of a Long Beach, Calif., beauty parlor. Four months ago she could not swim a stroke. Now, after lessons from admirers who had seen she was designed to swim by Nature, she had almost swum the Catalina Channel. She began again her laborious strokes . . . reached the oily shore swells . . . was swept toward a ragged reef . . . caught her footing, stood up, collapsed on her face. . . . The men hoisted her into the rowboat. Her time was 20 hr., 42 min. She had eaten nothing...
...less-this swimming race. He was advertising his enormous real estate development at Catalina. He was showing himself to be a patron of sport. He was making a bow to the sex, for he had stipulated that if a man won the race (this channel has never been swum) he would get $25,000 and the first woman to finish would get $15,000, but that if a woman won she would get $25,000 and the men nothing. And yet most of the best distance swimmers in the U. S. had taken his dare. There was Henry F. Sullivan...
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from...
That night all Deutschland-toasted the name of Ernst Vierkoetter, baker, he who had swum the English Channel in 12 hr. 42 min., thereby lowering Gertrude Ederle's record by 2 hr., beating the best male time by 4 hr. Only six days before, Herr Vierkoetter had battled waves and a blinding fog for ten hours, failed to reach the Dover cliffs. Even then people wondered of what stuff this man was made...