Word: sportsmanship
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Lindbergh. The name was, of course, on orating lips more often than even that of Washington or Lincoln. Augustus Orloff Thomas* of Maine, head of the world's federated education associations, invoked the Lindbergh "sporting blood," "sporting sense," "sportsmanship"?and also that of France, whom he pictured forgetting War debts when Colonel Lindbergh arrived?as " 'the wooden horse' by means of which we can break into the walled city of human hatreds?of racial and national jealousies...
...scheme to reform the House," said he, "must fail to arouse public interest, while so many of its members pass the time on their estates upholding the traditions of British sportsmanship...
...thousands who -will have read it, the deplorably tactless, ill-timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. . . . A "bitter taunt" indeed! A cowardly taunt. The taunt of one who has forgotten the English Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another, be it individual or nation." I ask you and your readers to laugh at that letter, as the outpouring of a liverish and bitterly disagreeable person. . . . GILBERT TYNDALE...
...sudden and untimely death, of Major Fred W. Moore, for more than twenty years Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. Major Moore's services to his Alma Mater have been many and varied. His career has been devoted to the promotion of wholesome rivalry and clean, vigorous sportsmanship. To him athletics existed not only to build the body but to train the mind and spirit. He knew well that truth and fair play can be taught no where better than on the gridiron or a diamond...
...Your action was mean and lacking in sportsmanship. You owe Mr. Crane an apology...