Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the great breakfast-table paper of New England find their Harvard news pour le sport under the line "By Roger Birtwell." Mr. Birtwell is one of the most unmistakable of the correspondents who frequent the Soldiers Field Locker Building, Harvard Square, and the Cambridge Savings Bank Building...
According to his own statement, he "attended Exeter for four years", and entered Harvard with the Class of 1922. He did not graduate, not because he loved Harvard less, but because he loved journalism more, and preferred writing about Harvard sport to sitting in the stone seats in the Stadium...
...from the base of the Sphinx, the vial of water from the Red Sea, the bag of dust from the Catacombs; they are all doomed to go. The thing to supplement the pictures taken at the beach is now the family collection of "priceless and cherished symbols of American sport achievement," as the New York store sponsoring the idea calls them. Baseballs whose motion during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners, the "77" jersey of Grange viewed from behind by spectator and player alike, the polo mallet of Devercux Milburn, the horseshoes that were first under...
...true lover of sport failed to get excited during the summer of 1925 when the newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
...Newgate Calendar; if you enjoy paying your quarter to see the waxen images of Mrs. Snyder, and the Chicago barber who went mad with his razor in his hand; if you enjoy following the dotted lines in the "Daily Mirror" diagram photographs to find the "X", marketing sport where murder was committed:--in short, if you have hankerings after homicide, you will find much in this collection of twentieth century crimes to quicken up your blood...