Word: sportsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...County Fair, Kingston, N. C., a cat-washing contest was held last week. Superviser was D. Eugene Wood, famed Carolina sportsman, who claims to have seen a flight of white crows, who advocates stocking the State's eastern swamps with 10,000 goats to eliminate underbrush and provide new game. Excerpts from Sportsman Wood's cat-washing rules...
...well for America to remember that naval problems are not confined to the Atlantic and Pacific alone," said C. A. Herter '15, Editor of "The Sportsman" and lecturer on international relations at Harvard, in discussing the 1930 Naval Parley with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "There is a problem in the Mediterranean in which Great Britain, Italy, and France are vitally interested...
...pleasure the football games during my cadet days, between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...
...social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas and Logan (erstwhile Lord & Thomas) is head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another...
Among the great days that mark a British sportsman's calendar-"Derby Day," "The Grand National," "Gold Cup Day," "Boat Race Day"-none is more important than "The Twelfth." By law and tradition mid-August is the time set apart for the shooting of the game red grouse. To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors...