Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston & Maine's snow train will go this weekend to Goffstown, New Hampshire, in the Uncanoonuc Mountains, where 30 inches of snow are reported at the present time. The Boston & Albany Winter Sportsman is scheduled to journey to Hindsdale in the Berkshires...
...have won two games and a rubber," he jested, referring to the four successive votes of confidence with which his seven months of political tightrope balancing were crowned recently. "I have been a sportsman. They can ask no more of me. I resign...
Despite the restrictions and prohibitions of the Convention, Africa still remains a decent sportsman's paradise. Its "dark heart" had long since been opened by railways and excellent automobile roads. A man who has never shot anything bigger than a partridge may go from Manhattan to Nairobi in Kenya in five weeks. There on the cool plateau, he may dress every light for dinner. At the swank Avenue Hotel, he will find elevators, a manicurist, a good jazz band and a fine table. His safari, entirely organized for him by experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month...
...Boston and Albany will run a "Winter Sportsman" Sunday to Adams in the Mt. Greylock district. Skiing is good with a report of 18 inches of snow at Greenfield nearby...
...sportsman and athlete before he was a writer, he played football, ran the 100 metres in 11½. An amateur matador, he killed his first two bulls when he was 15, was so badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann...