Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of ten ponies two years ago by Mr. Alan Pinkerton, father of the present captain of the team, forms the nucleus of the stable available for conducting the sport, but even with the further contribution of ponies by the Military Science Department the demand for mounts far exceeds the supply...
...telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders through a marsh of political machination crossed by a sickly stream of uninteresting adultery...
Next to the Glatt farm, the Lincoln Standard Aircraft Corp. opened a school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...
...Every-day Help for Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen in their philosophical moments, if sufficiently steeped in journalese and colloquialisms, might have written these same little pills of advice. Hence, countless readers will...
...under Venus with their misses sport...