Word: manship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks well on paper--on the paper of the college dailies it looks, especially well. Yet even so it is possible that we are reckoning without our host. For better or worse there is, in point of fact, something more to American college football than the enjoyment of sports-manship. Undergraduates really believe that to be strong and manly--and successful--in athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded...
...Today's game was typical of all Dartmouth Harvard games. It was hard-fought but cleancut, and excellent sports, manship was displayed by the rival elevens...
...three years, Paul Manship, famed U. S. sculptor, has been in Rome, Paris, Egypt. Returned, he exhibited, last week, in the Scott and Fowles Gallery, Manhattan...
...tonal mass," "plastic power," went away well content that if they had not passed the final dicta on Manship, they had, at least, put marble into words. The attendants at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, hearing these phrases, as indeed they were often expressly intended to, were not guilty of visible leers. They had been trained by long service to realize that loose verbiage, when applied to beauty in bronze and stone, is not necessarily an evidence of slovenly culture. They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients...
Three years ago, it would have been less difficult for those who visited an exhibition of Mr. Manship's to express what they saw. Five years ago, it would have been still less difficult. In those periods, Mr. Manship, the craftsman, the maker of glittering tours-de-force, was concerned with ideas (which language is very well suited to express) and with silhouettes (also adaptable to language). Now his art, complete in itself, asks no favors of literature. His faculty to interest, however, is still well evidenced in his choice of subject...