Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this indoor sport continued. His Majesty's puzzled Poet Laureate, famed John Masefield, whose yearly stipend is ?127 ($508), kept mum as a Cornish oyster, but Mrs. Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come...
...almost any Saturday during the season U. S. football fans can see a game as exciting as the Rose Bowl game. But California boosters have built Pasadena's Tournament of Roses sideshow into the country's No. 1 sport extravaganza. From Thanksgiving to New Year's Day the majority of U. S. citizens, from Polish mill hands to Park Avenue dandies, babble Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl. This year's babble was noisier than usual. For this year's game was one that U. S. fans have been waiting for for over a year...
...fearful as these two groups were separately, they were one hundred times worse when they joined forces for a common end. Vag remembered a certain Governor whose favorite occupation was bussing helpless babies. That was innocent enough sport, and after a certain age babies could no longer be bussed in public; but there were certain other ways politicians had of providing for youth which were much more annoying. Just the other day, in a newsreel, Vag had heard a certain be-moustached Galahad from New York throw his hat into the presidential ring with the ominous rally call: "I want...