Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing infuriates Mr. Nadi more than that vulgar error. He has written a furious book (On Fencing - Putnam; $3) to set Americans straight about his sport, which he prefers to call an art. A model of fencing instruction, the book is also an entertaining swordsman's-eye-view of mankind. "The fencing strip," observes Mr. Nadi sternly, "is the mirror of the soul...
...Ills. . . . Fencing, says Nadi, should be "a cardinal part" of everybody's education. He considers boxing, by contrast, a vulgar, stupid sport. He prescribes fencing for developing character, nervous stamina and intelligence, for reducing, for learning to walk properly, for "strengthening and toning the breast muscles" (quips Nadi: "Show me the girl not interested in these details...
...ambitious fencer can afford to indulge seriously in any other sport...
Court tennis, the sport of kings, is almost as old as sport itself, but the game of tennis as played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats...
...million who suspect they have heart disease but feel normal. Many will get good news. Dr. Steincrohn knows a woman who gave up nearly all exercise before she found out from her doctor that there was nothing wrong with her. She had unnecessarily missed five years of her favorite sport, tennis...