Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Dr. Merrill Moore of Boston is known as a psychiatrist, semiprofessional swimmer and author of 25,000 good and bad sonnets. With all his zest for life, Dr. Moore is most interested in the problem of suicide, has collected many scientific facts on this phenomenon. Last week in The New England Journal of Medicine he discussed the agent most commonly used by would-be suicides: iodine...
Last week, for the first time within the memory of the oldest Dane, a swimmer succeeded in crossing the Baltic...
...Swimmer: Jenny Kammersgaard, husky 18-year-old Danish maid...
...Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport...
Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...