Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the boring competition ended, Betty Wilson, a swimmer, and Howard Williams, a steeplejack and flagpole sitter, were tied for first prize. Promoter Crandall suggested that they talk off the tie. The gab fest cost Promoter Crandall $12,000 and he derived no financial profit from his game...
...actress, changed her name from Lucille Le Sueur to Joan Crawford after a magazine contest organized to pick a name for her; that she danced for a while at Harry Richman's Club, Manhattan, has won 26 loving cups in dancing competitions; is a good swimmer; has dark hair and brown eyes; is 5 ft. 4 in. high, and weighs...
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...
...distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against him. Yet his simple denial of misbehavior and a look at the rule-book were sufficient to allow him to represent the U. S. at the IXth Olympiad. John Weissmuller, fast U. S. swimmer, untainted amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts to the swimming events or should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water polo team...
...swimmer was ever more photographed than Mrs. Lotty Moore Schoemmel, fat water-woman. Last week her sister, Mrs. Grace Moore Shaw, told...