Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina) conducted Tannhauser at the Metropolitan Opera House and didn't seem to mind that his first try at Tannhauser fortnight ago had been severely panned ("I never blame the critics because I know my virtues and it does not touch me. I start again like a sportsman...
...runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good old Willie...
...cake and have it too. Back in the '30s, he had joined other truckers in getting federal rate regulation, squeezing out small, cut-rate truckers. It had helped so well that Keeshin had been able to buy the major interest in Chicago's enormously profitable race track, Sportsman's Park. Recently he had put up most of the $250,000 invested to start a new pro football team in Chicago...
...confused with his second cousin, Sportsman (speedboating, horse racing) Adolph B. Spreckels, whose sister, Geraldine, was the other Adolph's third wife...
...Navy since 1942, had a reunion with his energetic mother, Margaret Emerson, in Hawaii. The much-married (four times) Bromo-Seltzer heiress turned up as a Red Cross field worker, found that her 32-year-old millionaire-sportsman son looked less like a playboy...