Word: gerlach
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sport. Jay Gatsby used to call everyone an old sport, including the son-of-a-bitch Tom Buchanan, who did not like it. Fitzgerald borrowed the term from a bootlegger friend, Max Gerlach, who shot himself in 1939. Who could blame him? It's terrible to be an old sport, a creaky, achy, fatty over-the-hill athlete--even when one was a fair athlete at best--and to watch those long-muscled, wrinkle-free kids on TV, and to be borne back ceaselessly into the past...