Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport is the strain of a championship match so prolonged as in golf. Even in chess, which takes no account of the body, the strain ends when you stop playing, but a golf match can go on and on long after you have played your last stroke. Perhaps Joe Turnesa of Elmsford, N. Y., reflected on this paradox when, with his sticks put away, he stood in front of the Scioto Club (in Columbus, O.) and watched Robert Tyre Jones win the American Open...
...empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than six pages, from which must bs stricken all news of crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must be mixed with a fixed proportion of Italian alcohol. IV. Builders are forbidden to erect luxurious private houses of any sort, must confine themselves...
...first time in N. E. A. history, the delegates took official cognizance of sport as a factor of modern education. They affirmed their faith in competitive athletics, their conviction that it must not overshadow scholastics...
...have been a long while-maybe a year-getting around to it, but some time in the past twelvemonth TIME has had an item which impresses me as rare journalism. [TIME, Oct. 19, SPORT]. It was a little piece, and it ran, according to my copy, like this...
...Sherwood Anderson reached him and caused him a bit of a pain. Perhaps other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose Negro servants laughed to see such sport. If so, here is solace. For with due respect to Critic H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and the allegedly significant Chicago school of fiction, young Mr. Hemingway has sat him down and written a not altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young...