Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascists only Dino Alfieri, once Italian propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin, shunned the Roman revels at the Palace Hotel. He preferred his own serious set at the swank Golf & Sport Hotel at Crans-sur-Sierre. For Alfieri was talking about forming a new political party, still dreaming about returning to Italy. Count Volpi shook his head...
Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...
...Wrote Sport Columnist Grantland Rice: "It wouldn't be so bad if these Brooklyn College players were the only offenders. . . . I know of more than one college football game . . . under heavy suspicion. My informants were members...
...UNDER SPORTS (Jan. 8) YOU STATE "[WASHINGTON WAS SORELY IRKED] BY THE INCREASE IN WAR-PLANT ABSENTEEISM DURING LOS ANGELES' RECENT HOLLYWOOD PARK MEETING." THIS STATEMENT IS ERRONEOUS AND COMPLETELY INCORRECT. THE OFFICIAL WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION FIGURES FOR THE WAR FACTORIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE HOLLYWOOD TURF CLUB AS WELL AS IN THE GENERAL LOS ANGELES AREA SHOW AN AVERAGE DECREASE IN ABSENTEEISM DURING [THE RACING SEASON] THIS STATEMENT COMING OUT NOW IN TIME COMES LIKE A BOX ON THE EARS TO A SPORT THAT IS ALREADY HOLDING THE BACK OF ITS PANTS FOR HAVING BEEN SO BADLY...
...Francisco Chronicle's hard-hitting sport editor, Bill Leiser, landed a shrewd blow last week in defense of wartime pro sport. In his column, "As Bill Leiser Sees It," he wrote...