Word: sportsmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendency in writing any account of that history making Yale game, to became indiscriminate in hysterical praise. But surely it is not too much to say that the team which has worked patiently under three years of inspired coaching, and has been led by a captain magnificient in his sportsmanship, earned its victory and all the praise that goes with...
This series of assertions was premature, but served the Opposition's purpose, bringing the Prime Minister limping heavily out of No. 10 and into the House of Commons where British sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain...
...Sportsmanship is absent from some newspaper comment on the activities of the Duchess and myself," added Windsor. "We are looking forward to our tour of the United States to study methods of housing and industrial conditions...
Last Saturday's football game was the scene for a display of the poorest sportsmanship imaginable, and this on the part of Harvard boys--they cannot be called Harvard men after such an exhibition. The air above the stands during the second half was filled with flying paper-wads made of soaked copies of the H. A. A. News. It apparently began as a protest against ladies' umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that...
...beer cans were thrown, and one girl was struck in the ankle with a bottle, to say nothing of the numerous jolting slaps in the backs of heads. And coming in the face of the misfortunes of the team the undergraduates are expected to support, no worse lack of sportsmanship can be conceived...