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...brought from obscurity by clever publicity. . . . She thought more of a story or a picture than making a swim. I had to spend money on her to make her think she was being pursued by reporters, found it next to impossible to get my publicity-crazed sister into the water to train unless it was to the accompaniment of the click of camera shutters. She was so spoiled. ... I spent money for private photographers. This was necessary as we were so far from Los Angeles that newspapermen came out rarely. ... I want her to pay the $800 I spent...
Clasped in his arms, Janey rallies her swooning senses with ingenuity worthy of true American girlhood. She snatches her bandit by the hand, slips the guard, and makes for the sea, casting off garments by the way. Easily they swim to her yacht, and soon are steaming down the coast to safety. The last hours of the night they spend in chaste though earnest conversation on deck, and at dawn he leaves...
...invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...
...first signs of spring were apparent yesterday afternoon despite the frigid weather. LeC. H. Eells 1G.B. after many tempting bribes offered to him by fellow students consented to swim across the Charles River...
Claire, once almost a channel swimmer, turns up on one of the smaller islands, but chafes under the obvious intentions of its two male citizens, and dives off in the wake of departing seagulls, just as a renewed upheaval submerges the island anyway. An overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that...