Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Navy. Charles Francis Adams of Boston fits the sea. sentimentally, as snugly as a well-made yachting cap in a stiff breeze. But to pilot the International Cup Defender Resolute to victory, as Mr. Adams did do in 1920, and to guide the destiny of the U. S. Navy from a swivel chair in Washington, as Mr. Adams will do, are two wide-apart things...
...little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
...exists stirred up such a news flurry that the tycoons, cautious, kept their intentions secret for most of another week, while news-starved correspondents were fed titbit after titbit about what the group was preparing to do. Meanwhile Mr. Morgan ran over to London, as he said, "for a cup of tea"; and various other delegates paid flying visits to their homes. When everyone had gotten back from wherever he had gone...
Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...
...Bill hasn't been playing very much lately," was Van Ryn's explanation. But still the elders did not care. They decided that Van Ryn looked like a potential national champion as well as Davis Cup timber-and a modest champion, at that...