Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...
...Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
Among the great days that mark a British sportsman's calendar-"Derby Day," "The Grand National," "Gold Cup Day," "Boat Race Day"-none is more important than "The Twelfth." By law and tradition mid-August is the time set apart for the shooting of the game red grouse. To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors...
Elected. Max R. Marston, national amateur golf champion in 1923, member of the American Walker Cup team, 1922-24; to be a general partner of Otis & Co., banking house, in charge of the Philadelphia office...
...With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...