Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What made the Wilson awards remarkable, especially in the opinion of men who have sported against West Point, was the supremacy of any one "Pointer" over all his fellows in all-round ability. West Pointers must be fit to get in, to stay in. Their life is rigorous, their sports many. That "Light Horse Harry" Wilson outmuscled and outgeneraled his classmates in all things, was, after all, less remarkable than the fact that in all West Point history (the Academy was founded in 1802) no previous captain of "the manliest sport" has clearly outmanned all his contemporaries in other directions...
...following list of books Professor William Lyon Phelps, '87, has compiled a series of suggestions for summer reading. Included in this number are twenty-three novels, several books of poetry and drama, and twenty-six biographies. There are also listed publications on sport, religion, general topics on the subject of books themselves, as well as numerous travel and social history works...
...Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing a straw hat with his Prince Albert. When President Coolidge heard what the Vice President was tittering about he smiled and said: "Well, it's just about as proper to wear a straw hat with a Prince Albert...
...They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...