Word: sportsmanship
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...dying is out of the question. The remote risk of it is just enough to make a flight by Coolidge, with Lindbergh, a magnificently "sporting" thing for him to do in a country which prides itself on its sportsmanship. There's too much play-safe policy among its public figures. Roosevelt would fly with Lindbergh like a shot-he would have the day Lindbergh got home from Paris! Better late than never...
...permissable scope of dramatized history, which is more widely reviewed than the written accounts and further gives the effect of actuality. If in the case of "Dawn" England has refused to add to national pride by premature sanction, then to it goes the greater glory of pioneering in international sportsmanship...
...fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant a caress on its cruel horns as it came plunging by. Lesser matadors at home in Spain followed anxiously...
Accurate comment on the Yale-Harvard Game must needs be a reminder of the obvious. More than half a century of athletic relationships have demonstrated to the public as well as to Harvard and Yale men the defeat of true sportsmanship...
...Harvard football destiny. Whatever has been the result of his first two years' efforts, indifferent success or a gradual building up process, there has never arisen a question as to his pre-eminent qualities as a gentleman and a worthy tutor of young men in the important field of sportsmanship...