When the race started, he blew by her so fast, she suffered massive wind burn, prompting laughter from his audience. "And he got out of the race, went and had a little lunch, [then] came back and watched the rest of the young ladies finish. The whole thing is crazy."
We're like people on the Titanic saying our ship can't sink, Shore said. And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can't sink.