Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
...interest of Spaniards in matters of sport follows the King. Therefore, last week, the presence of King Alfonso at Wimbledon was almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita...
William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. George H. Daley, sport editor New York World...
...article finally ends with this sentence: This sport was witnessed with much interest by the spectators...
...fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...