Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Propaganda Ministry invited all the foreign press to the party, gave them a hotel to themselves. Decorative squads of soldiers hiked bravely through the streets, singing happily every hour on the hour. The world could thus know that, even in wartime, Germans are: 1) healthy, 2) happy, 3) sport-loving, 4) musical...
...authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account, "in early youth took an intense dislike to . . . every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting...
With but two matches left to play, one with St. Paul's and the other with the Yale Freshmen, this year's Yardling Squash team appears to be one of the greenest yearling squads to sport the Crimson...
...Michael Shayne, Private Detective" is a grade B show which deserves an A minus. The plot, as is customary in Hollywood murder mysteries, tells how a private detective outsmarts the public defectives. But Lloyd Nolan raises the show way above average by an excellent performance as the sport-coated Sherlock Holmes...
...longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...