Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...congratulate you and hope you will keep up the good work," said Mr. Coolidge to Walter Johnson, pitcher, handing from the Presidential box at the Washington baseball field a diploma certifying that the sport writers of the eight American League cities had chosen Johnson as the most valuable player in the American League last season...
College visiting, a favorite sport among the aged, was in full swing. From the "House" (Christ Church) to the "Skimmery" (St. Mary's Hall), not forgetting "Pemmy" (Pembroke), "Wuggins" (Worcester College), "Teddy" Hall (St. Edmund's Hall), "Jaggers" (Jesus College), "B. N. C." (Brasenose College), "Quaggers" (Queens College), hoary men, rejuvenated for the . time being, revisited the haunts of their college days...
...drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
...Highest honor in college, Phi Beta Kappa; most respected extra-curricular activity, Princetonian; favorite professor, McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...
Then there are the foreigners. They are always there--more and more of them. The good old Boxer days were the days of real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human...