Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadowed by visored caps-are part of a tradition of hot U. S. afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park, isolated from the city by a wide belt of old brick houses, garages and disused beer gardens, come all the riffraff of the homely town, and most of its substantial citizens...
...trophy was posted in 1912 by M. Jacques Schneider, famed French sportsman and maker of firearms. It is a large bronze of a nude winged female swooping down to kiss one of a group of male faces formed in the crest of an ocean wave...
Treasure Hunt. Few years ago the party game of "treasure hunt" (pursuit of a prize by discovery and correct interpretation of successive cryptic clues concealed throughout a house or over the countryside) was made more elaborate by using automobiles. Last week the Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsman pilots, applied the game to the air. Sample clue: "Fly 5° south of east for approximately 8 min. where you will pick up a Catholic Church located between two golf courses. From this church, lay a course 25° east of north. . . . You will come to an airport where...
Outside Congress: A rich bachelor, he lives in his ancestral home, a big brownstone house on fashionable 16th Street. He drives himself to & from the Capitol in a Ford, keeps a big limousine and chauffeur for social purposes. The Senate's most inveterate sportsman, he bowls and boxes daily at a gymnasium, plays golf in the 70's at Burning Tree Club, shoots ducks, goes to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bear, and bring their cubs back to the Washington zoo. Socially he moves in the best Washington circles but prefers admirals to most of his Senate colleagues...
...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...