Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British bigwigs amused themselves and their countrymen last week with the ancient and honorable (in England) sport of shouting hard names at each other in the newspapers. To the U. S., often justly accused by Great Britain of lacking dignity, untidy squabblings in the press by its wise, important people are rare curiosities...
...clamor about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...
Inasmuch as the author pessimistically presents his charge as a fiat accompli, it seems imperative to rise up and remind him that he is dangerously on the verge of offending certain Boston sport writers who pride themselves on having classified Harvard football long ago. Their diagnosis has boldly proclaimed that there are altogether too many "gentlemanly" gentlemen in Harvard football for its own good. Such a clash of reliable judgements naturally brings the question to an impasse...
Colonel W. S. Brown of the United States Army will be one of the speakers at the dinner. It is understood that the Association, realizing the growing importance of government support in college polo, will ask him to point out value of the game as an undergraduate sport when played under the auspices...
...Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros.' new 6-cylinder model, the Victory Six. John North Willys cut prices on all Whippet models and priced one, a sport coupe, at $545, which is $5 less than the price of the corresponding Ford model. And William Crapo Durant made the prices of his 4-cylinder Star match those of the Ford...