Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest card player in the world." In the light of this statement, and of the friendly little tiffs during the match, the following advice becomes pregnant with something or other: "My wife and I believe in teaching our children bridge at an early age, as the best training . . . for sportsmanship...
...Pulitzer Prize with Hell-bent for Heaven. The Professor's current opus is about a sophisticated artist who wants a baby, while his wife is only interested in amateur theatricals. The artist has the baby by an obliging French girl, an act which his wife takes with thoroughgoing good sportsmanship. Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop...
...comes at a significant time. A little less than a year ago small groups of alumni were sending enraged protests to the Athletic Association and demanding an outside coach. But the A.A., convinced that to hire a professional, outside coach would eventually prove inconsistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship ideals, adopted a compromise plan in which a Yale graduate head coach was supported by non-graduates...
...very, very far back to catch all the Bambino's terrific deliveries. Next day Mr. Ruth again hit only a single. This was harder to explain, for Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx both hit homers, and Earl Averill hit two, polishing off the game 5-to-11. With exquisite sportsmanship, Japanese baseball scribes then wrote that of course all the handshaking Japanese had inflicted on Mr. Ruth must have tired his arm. Said Manager Connie Mack, with feeling: "I wish Judge Landis could see how the great Japanese crowds are handled, how well behaved they are and how efficiently they...
...Chicago the battle of the mannequins was waged most politely. Professional models, from their headquarters on East Wacker Drive, sent an appeal to the Gold Coast to refrain from this ruinous competition on the grounds of sportsmanship. Touched, many debutantes promised that they would...