Word: disports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memphis "socialites" have been at least tutored if not bred to the better tradtion of southern manners. None would disport her thick, blackened thigh to Pictures...
...famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...
...tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily sit, and where the St. Groticsex boys disport themselves. She will tell you that she has seen individual units of these disparate sects thrown together at the same table, quite frequently, but that she has never, from one year to the next, seen them introduce themselves, or heard them utter anything more intimate than "Please pass the salt." --Yale Daily...
...comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal henchman of Boss Calles, he left the Convention as soon as he was nominated, retired to disport himself harmlessly in Aguascalientes, famous for its thermal baths...
...Amis de Vivre, seclude themselves in the Norman village of Choseville. Less bold French sunlovers belong to the Société Naturiste, retire to the mid-Seine island of Médan ten miles northwest of Paris. There, in a four-year-old bungalow colony called Physiopolis, they disport themselves in brassières and ''modesty belts...