Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni will congregate in the Stadium Thursday afternoon for the exercises which, during the war, consisted of military reviews, but which had formerly involved the gentle sport of throwing confetti at the graduating class after the delivery of the Ivy Oration...
...same time a lot of things were looking up-were fine as frog's hair. The spring-legged, limber-armed postwar baseball players seemed amazing (see SPORT). So did the first few of the shiny new cars and taxicabs. Nobody really wanted to argue with Father Divine's most widely quoted conclusion. It had just taken time to get used...
...Monocle. After the meeting, Jinnah got out of his political costume as soon as possible, relaxed in his comfortable New Delhi home (he has a more palatial one on Bombay's Malabar Hill). He changed quickly to a tropical grey suit, blue & black striped tie, black & white sport shoes. Later, as he read to a reporter passages from one of his past speeches, Jinnah screwed a monocle into his right eye. He wears Moslem dress only because his enemies sneer that Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have...
Russia's women still found the shops bare, but they could dream. Last week the first issue of Soviet Woman, a kind of proletarian Vogue, went to 20,000 subscribers who paid ten rubles ($2) a copy. It featured a picture spread of evening dresses, furs, fancy shoes, sport clothes. Dress directions were printed in large type, so that the ladies would be able to make their...
...infield seems to be the brightest sport in the Crimson picture, with at least two positions pretty well sewed up at the moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...