Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry started his reign in 1509 as a handsome, strapping 17-year-old, seemingly the perfect embodiment of the chivalric tradition. A superb sportsman and a gifted musician, he also could hold his own intellectually in company with those lights of Renaissance humanism, Erasmus and Thomas More. Yet he grew into a gross, willful creature not so far removed from the modern layman's view of him, which seems to be based mainly on Charles Laughton's famous roaring, slobbering portrayal in the 1933 film The Private Life of Henry VIII. He gorged himself at seven-hour banquets...
...Association campaign to eliminate all traffic laws, because they do not stop people from speeding and driving through red lights. And then I'd like to see some interested group work to eliminate laws against rape. There are always some killjoys in society trying to restrain the American sportsman...
...Greentree owners have done themselves proud before: they once had a colt named Night Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races...
Frank Learoyd Boyden, D.H., headmaster of Deerfield Academy for 66 years. As a discerning teacher and enthusiastic sportsman, he led his own students to full participation in that ancient ideal, mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a sound body...
...Harvard Lampoon won back its Ibis Wednesday, not to mention the respect of admirers of good-sportsman-ship everywhere. The gentle Poonies found the legendary bird at the bottom of the Adams House swimming pool at the end of a three-and-a-half hour Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Harvard CRIMSON...