Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving cup...
When Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's blue sloop Endeavour won the first two races for the America's Cup last fortnight, it looked as if the $500 trophy which has been in Tiffany's Manhattan vaults since 1857 would presently go back to England, whence it came in 1851. When Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's white Rainbow won the next four, it looked as though the Cup would stay in the U. S. for another year at least. But no one could be sure-not even Skipper Vanderbilt himself. As he finished ahead in that sixth race...
...Endeavour got a new Genoa jib. Rainbow got the better start. Endeavour passed her on the first leg. Shortly after rounding the mark, Rainbow over-took Endeavour, went on to win by more than a minute. After the race, Skipper Sopwith filed a protest with the America's Cup Race Committee. He stated that Rainbow had committed one breach of rules before the start, which enabled her to get across the line first, and another after rounding the first mark, which had enabled her to regain the lead...
...when the Earl of Dunraven challenged for the America's Cup with Valkyrie III, he first charged that the owners of the defending yacht Defender had had ballast secretly and unfairly added at night, then that she had fouled Valkyrie at the start of the second race, and that the crowding of the spectator fleet endangered him. After crossing the line at the start of the third race, he withdrew unexpectedly and forfeited the series. After a celebrated "trial," in which Lord Dunraven failed to prove his charges, he was expelled from honorary membership in the New York Yacht...
...Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been the greatest race of the series merely climaxed a growing unpleasantness that added nothing toward international racing goodwill. That night the 1934 America's Cup races were still anybody's victory...