Word: sportsman
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, revealed that Flyer Charles Lindbergh had asked him for letters of introduction to friends in Paris who might "show him around a little." Colonel Roosevelt complied. To Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick he wrote: "This will introduce to you . . . a real sportsman . . . Captain Lindbergh is modest. He won't ask you to do anything for him. If I were you, however, I would insist upon seeing something...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Harris Orlowski, 34, wife of Leon Orlowski, secretary of the Polish Legation to the U. S.; onetime (1910-18) wife of Actor John Barrymore,* and (1921-23) of Sportsman Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt; in Manhattan...
...Charles Frederick's arrival was so blazoned that it practically obscured the arrival, on the same boat, of his chief employer-Sir Thomas Lipton, aging tea purveyor, sportsman...
...There is a fundamental difference in temperament between the English and American sportsman", declared B. McK, Henry '24, captain of the University crew in his Senior year and the following year a member of his college crew at Oxford...
...Another contrast between the English and American sportsman lies in the greater sense of personal discipline of the former", declared Henry. "One often hears that English athletes are surprisingly lax about training, but on that point I disagree. True, ale may be in evidence at an Oxford training table, but it is taken in small quantities, and in other respects the Englishman is more fastidious than the American...