Word: sportsmans
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...whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip...
...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...