Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more simple English words" may be only that one reader's request, but won't you please consider those of us who delight in coming upon new or unusual words? To me, a perusal of your incomparable paper is fraught with hid den joys because of the sport attendant on sedulously ferreting out the meaning of such refreshingly unusual expressions. When I read TIME, a modern dictionary is usually at hand; otherwise, I mark the words as I happen upon them...
...ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
...forget that our American friends are great experts in trading. They love trading as they love sport. A curious story I heard today is an illustration of that fact. The story is too good not to be true...
...future of polo at Harvard hung in the balance at noon yesterday when Col. Clark, coach of the polo team, told the candidates for that sport that without their financial support the sport could not be continued...
...meeting yesterday those present, who will make up the squad for fall, practice, pledged themselves to maintain polo as a sport at Harvard and voted that the expense of maintaining it should be divided equally between the members of the squad. The membership of the squad will be limited, it was decided, to 20 members...