Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It is a very wise crack that gets two laughs for its parent. Nevertheless, enjoyment of this long-awaited moronese farce by Anita Loos and John Emerson is not totally dependent upon one's not having read the Loos novel. As for the uninitiated, their cup of joy is full...
...Lutz, for twenty years builder of Harvard's shells, will start work on a boat which should be completed by the Midyear period. This boat will be built on the same lines as the one in which the Second University eight of 1914 won the English Grand Challenge cup and which the University 150-pound crew has been using for the past two years. The new shell however, will be built with enough depth to accommodate a heavier aggregation. Still a third boat will probably be built next spring, but it has not yet been decided what the pattern will...
There is no simile big enough to give an idea of that crowd. To conceive of the cup of the stadium as the cup that holds a man's brain; to conceive of the ranked heads as the cells of the brain, each alone, yet united in a common consciousness, each fiercely kinetic, yet keeping its place in a segment, an area at once cut off from and united to other areas by dark intersecting lanes, and every cell, every segment, every area of the vast filled hollow burning inward and downward upon the mysterious core of its life...
...putt and standing with a cigaret in his mouth while he saw Von Elm tap his ball into the hole; while he saw a roistering squad of spectators hoist Von Elm, to their shoulders, while he saw Von Elm, bobbing and blushing after his magnificent exploit; receive the gold cup that meant the national amateur championship...
...come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their match an hour late. Johnston, the second ranking player in the world, and steadiest member of the U. S. Davis Cup team, won the first two sets with ease, as he was expected to. Then, amazingly, he lost the next three and the match...