Word: sportsmanship
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...hooray for Dewey for his honesty, and for his clean way of campaigning, his sportsmanship. A damn good egg. I was particullarly impressed by his damnation of Ham Fish for the slam at the Jews...
...loved this country because it gave him a chance to live like a decent human" being. I was blessed with a mother who knew no boundaries of race or religion, especially when other people were in trouble. My grammar-school and high-school teachers taught me to love good sportsmanship. They taught what they were, even more than what they knew...
Senator Brown and Judge Ferguson tried a radio debate, got involved in personalities, later wrangled privately about each other's bad sportsmanship. But they could make no real, telling points against each other, and they knew it. Labor's friend Van Wagoner ran as "Michigan's War Governor"; War Veteran Kelly (he lost a leg at Chateau-Thierry) ran as "labor's friend...
...success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles, rocks, finally...
After seeing movies of the game, Friesell frankly admitted his mistake. Though he could not reverse his decision (a referee's jurisdiction ends with his last whistle toot), Cornell conceded the game to Dartmouth (3-to-0) in a shining display of sportsmanship. Afterwards he actually received letters addressed merely "Fifth Downer, U.S.A...