Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until recent years the beaver was seen only in woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing for trout. For this job he received no wage at all; he did it just because he loved the work...
...hockey fans wondered if they would be able to watch their favorite sport this winter. Since 90% of the National Hockey League players are Canadians, it was unlikely that the League could fulfill its schedule (starting Nov. 2) with Canada...
...Sport? Good of aviation? Bunk! . . . We race for glory and for fame and for the money we can make." Thus wrote swashbuckling, 43-year-old Roscoe Turner, wax-mustached dean of U. S. speed fliers, in this month's Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course...
...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
...signed the Pact, all Germany was jubilant. The press gloated, called the Axis "blockade proof," chided the English & French for "groveling before the Kremlin." The radio gloated some more. By nightfall Berlin's streets were as gay as any holiday. Cafes along Kurfurstendamm overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band struck up the Communist Internationale and everybody stood up. Gossip even got around that that great...