Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meetings. Father Coughlin told a newshawk: "It's got to be done, and if I fail it means annihilation for me. ... At the least sign of slowing up, my enemies inside and out-side the Church would nail me. They wouldn't pay much attention to the sportsman's code about shooting a sitting bird...
Died. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 46, banker, sportsman, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp., onetime board chairman of Madison Square Garden Corp.; following an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., in 1929 he helped merge twelve aviation companies in Curtiss-WTright Corp...
Born. To Sir Walter Gilbey, 75, British sportsman; and Lady Gilbey (Marion Broadhead), 39; a son; in London...
Died. Desha Breckinridge, 67, Kentucky sportsman, politician, longtime editor-publisher of the Lexington Herald; in Lexington...
...years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight...