Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today France has a tall, keen, young Premier who goes to Scotland every season to shoot grouse. This trivial fact was of vast, imponderable weight last week. It enabled tall Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin to rank as a gentleman and a sportsman in the eyes of the tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego...
...most consistently dull piece of entertainment in the city of Boston at the present time is the Sportsman's show at the Mechanics Building. Ostensibly an exhibit of sporting goods and things pertaining to sport in general, it is in reality a third-rate country fair without the horse races and the fresh...
Returning with some 12,000 live and mounted exhibits of the inhabitants of the North woods, the Sportsman's Show is running through this week in the Mechanics Building on Huntington Avenue. Indians and their appurtenances, fish and the tackle that is supposed to catch them, animals and the weapons with which to hunt them are all included in this annual exhibition...
...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
...about which obviously the writer knows very little. If every man in the Harvard student body will get behind the administration, Bill Bingham, the coach, and the team, and will stay behind them. Harvard will not only have a winning team, but will justify the hope of every true sportsman that she is making the most of her opportunities-win or lose-she will be doing her best. "United we stand, divided we fall...