Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...
...bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance in the infield for Mr. Widener's customers...
...sport of Governors-appointing honorary colonels to their staffs for kudos (but no pay)-was carried to a peak of absurdity by Kentucky's Ruby Laffoon (1931-35), who appointed 11,352 colonels. Currently Wisconsin's new Julius ("The Just") Heil leads all contenders with 57 new colonels, most of them affluent, full-blooded men like himself, many of them his cronies at the board and bar of the Milwaukee Athletic Club. Last week State Senator Phil Nelson, a puckish Progressive, gave public cognizance to the Heil colonels by offering a resolution (promptly pigeonholed) which would empower Governor...
...Rome last week international tennis, for four decades Sport's roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...
Aside from its general resemblance to a bathtub, the Nassau tank generously overflows into the laps of the spectators during every race, all of which does not promote good will toward the padding sport. Also, life was tough for the backstrokers. As they surged along on their respective backs they were forced to see not a decent ceiling, but a be-girdered roof cluttered with Tiger fans clinging to the rafters. One eager Bengal rooter even dropped his raincoat into the tank, but not during a race--it was only during the dive...