Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tombs makes her feel a little uncomfortable. Says she: "We are not very civilized, people of little value, of few possibilities, content to put handles of silver on the coffins of our great men and then believe we have made fools of ourselves over them." Egyptian Day is a notebook: that is to say, there is little padding...
...certain disdain of "games" as opposed to "sports" is reflected in Mr. Danielson's editorials and his "Leaves from a Sportsman's Notebook," monthly feature of the magazine. Says he: "Sport, by every decent definition, is confined to man's contest with wild life or nature. It has nothing to do with man's competition with man-except in those cases where nature . . . decides-in the last analysis-the issue." To Sportsman Danielson football, golf, tennis, trapshooting, are games; foxhunting, sailing, mountaineering-Sports...