Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually rules rather than decorative diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic...
Topsy and Eva. Herein the Duncan Sisters are seen but not heard. The roguish one (Rosetta) plays Topsy, who flees all over snow-bound Kentucky chased by ogrish Simon Legree with his snapping whip. Vivian, the beautiful one, plays Little Eva, who flaps her white eyelids to see such sport. It appears to be a vehicle for Rosetta's clowning and as such compares unfavorably with her similar performances in vaudeville...
...York Times gave him slightly over a half-column on an inside page (but not a sport page...
...York World gave five inches on its second sport page, without so much as mentioning his name in headlines. The Atlanta Constitution gave four inches on its second sport page using the headline: LOOK WHO'S HERE! ANOTHER OP THOSE CHANNEL SWIMMERS. The Boston Herald gave five inches on its third sport page...
...wedding guests laughed to see such sport. Grande Anse reveled long and late, the victorious flare-up of the hostess furnishing backwoodsmen and Manhattanites alike with a merry toast...