Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most sportswriters to deride him for his victory last week. Nothing he has done since he landed in the U. S. in 1929-, an illiterate monster with a French manager, has won him any praise or popularity. After last week's bout, Challenger Loughran, lauded as the finest sportsman among U. S. prizefighters, spoke of "rabbit punches and backhand blows," complained that the champion should have been disqualified for stepping on his foot. Monster Camera was more polite: "He [Loughran] was fighting a great fight. ... I should have knocked him out but it would have been shameful to treat...
Married. Grace Green Roosevelt. 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (see p. 51), eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. Baltimore architect and sportsman; in Oyster Bay. L. I. The wedding cake was constructed by famed Mme Blanche (TIME. Jan. 8).'The 2.000-odd guests included Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and some 15 other Roosevelts...
...inch at a time, in the next 40 yards. Ten steps from the tape they were exactly abreast. Cunningham dived at the tape. Bonthron lunged without falling. The lunge won by inches, in 4.14. Bonthron jogged on around the track, came back to get the cup from Sportsman Hugh M. Baxter, who was a champion pole vaulter and high jumper in the 1880s...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...
Chafing with spleen General Göring filled in a leisure moment by usurping for himself the highly aristocratic post of Master of the Hunt in Prussia. "We must eliminate the vulgar 'meat hunter' in favor of the true German sportsman," cried Master GÖring. "Ample wild life must be maintained to preserve the German animal world as the living soul of the Fatherland...