Word: canoeists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...
Major William Kennelly, barrel-chested president of the New York Athletic Club, saw from his yacht a canoe upset in the wake of a Manhattan ferry, dived to the rescue of the floundering canoeist, one Don O'Reilly, saved his life...