Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list is law. Dungeons and the rack are no longer good form; a much more subtle toxin does its work among the credulous of this day. The old sport of hushing up any one possibly opposed to the powers that be is revived; its victims are dragged along in a net of prejudice, without even the semblance of a just trial...
...properly developed, should make it a likely contender for victories in the three objective meets of the year, Dartmouth, Yale, and the Intercollegiates. "The track material in the University," he said, "is as good this year is it has been any year since I have been connected with the sport...
Partisans of Candidate Hoover last week publicly began what is to be a national indoor and outdoor sport for the next three months-delegate-counting. Of the 1,089 Republicans who assemble in June at Kansas City, a simple majority of 545 are all that will be required to nominate. But such simple majorities are seldom arrived at without preliminary complications. What with Favorite Sons and Uninstruction and the wishful valor of Candidate Lowden's friends, the height of Hoover optimism last week was 414 delegates, or 131 shy. And of these 414, only 45 were on-the-dotted...
...years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening...
Charlie Paddock still continues to break records after reaching what seems a ripe old age for an athlete and big league managers do not hesitate to trade a flock of rookies for one veteran player, but in one sport at least youth will come into its won this year. The Davis Cup team as announced for the first matches with Mexico on April 6 marks the coming of another generation in the game. After holding the cup in America for years, the famous trio of Tilden, Johnson and Williams have dwindled to but one, and Tilden alone must head...