Word: undertow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outstanding 1929 Carnegie medalists were aquatic heroes. Two silver medals were awarded. One went to Miss Barbara H. Miller, 22, Charleston, S. C. student. for braving an ocean undertow which had vanquished several men, to rescue a drowning woman. The other, with a monthly death benefit, was awarded to the widow of Edward R. Grundy. At Miami Beach. Fla., Grundy swam out to a drowning woman, clutched her, battled the undertow desperately for 20 minutes. When another swimmer reached them, Hero Grundy was dead...
Silent upon the shore of Coney Island, N. Y., one day last week, sat the Governor of South Dakota. It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
...Oregon is news for what he does. In September, 1925, he was arrested on charges of throwing crockery drunkenly around a restaurant. The case against him was dropped, but the incident contributed to his defeat in the Senatorial elections last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter's trousseau†-a bill which has been due for more than a year. Mrs. Stanfield...
Ocean At the foot of 23rd Street, Coney Island, at seven o'clock one evening, surly breakers crowded over Morris Ravmitzky, 17. The undertow pressed its oily brine down into his lungs, dragged his body out for the depth crabs to fumble over. For three days and nights the boy's mother paced the beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel...
Recently U. S. Senator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon walked the beach at Ocean City, Md., suddenly, startled, heard a scream. Mrs. J. E. Swanson of Florida was struggling feebly against buffeting combers. No poltroon, Mr. Stanfield swam lustily to her, fought undertow for 15 minutes before he could make the shore. Said the Senator: "This experience was the most harrowing of my life...