Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profitable sport, while it lasts this intercontinental hopping. Two heroes who initiated the game have folded their wings and perched in prominent executive positions. An only semi-successful aviatrix has achieved silks and satins and the acclaim of America's girl glorifier. Others wear the badges of army-rank, possess the bank-accounts of Correspondence School successes, and appear weekly in the suburban newsreel...
Tennis proved to be the strong sport in Gore this year, and was the direct cause of bringing the title to that dormitory. Fifteen points, or more than half of Gore's total, were gained through tennis...
Aside from this unusual preponderance of able tennis players in the winning Hall, the spring sports were fairly evenly divided among the dormitories. Gore was also strong in baseball and rowing, while Smith led in track, sculling and in the number of men who earned numerals, McKinlock was second only to Gore in tennis, as nine of its 14 points were gained in that sport. Standish proved to be most effective in track and baseball, taking three points in each of these sports, and also counting three numeral winners among its number...
...instant that such a charm could work. Then an army of knights so provided might walk boldly & unseen into the City of Hamburg, select 11 victims at random, and plunge invisible but deadly swords through their hearts. Perhaps the invisible knights would round out a day of ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury grew they would slay horses, cattle, dogs, cats, and perhaps run mad, slashing trees, stabbing bushes, murdering grass...
...leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes to his darling, comforts her in vain. He alone understood that the blonde had every right to dance on with Hergesell, while Lorie had quite rightly been permitted to dance only once, and that once only in sport. "Lorie's grief was incurable and without rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this...