Word: channelized
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...female species, deadlier than the male, swam the English Channel three times in seven days. Britain burbled with delight over the prowess of its mermaids; U.S. papers printed smaller and smaller notices; even of the feat of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, (Nom de mer Mona McLennan) in bettering Gertrude Ederle's time. To Dr. Logan was paid the $5,000 prize offered by Lord Riddell of the News of the World to any British girl who beat the record. She had grooved the dark wet miles in 13 hours, 10 minutes; 81 minutes faster than Miss Ederle...
...later Dr. Logan confessed. U. S. papers delightedly printed first page stories of the hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...
...then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...last), of many highly imaginary musical celebrities, there is a heavy coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved or changed in the last ten years, cannot here be decided; but certainly it has changed its channel, and Mrs. Bacon's writings, once islands, are now dry, tedious wastes, unprofitable for readers to explore...
Across the English Channel went Boris...