Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four weeks I just sip water." How Mrs. Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything she can lay her hands on." Crawford Burton, 48, dean of U. S. hunt riders, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland at the age of 72. His son, who is 49, finished second. So you see, I'm really just a kid at the game. . . . Training? The real ones train on love...
...hunt was on in Chicago last week for a frying-pan that would sound A flat, a soup plate that would give G sharp, a tea cup in B. Four erratic-looking men went from one Loop store to another, producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons...
...most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games in the final series for the Stanley Cup, no ties are allowed. Black Hawks and Red Wings, tied 1-1, had started a second 20-min. overtime period last week when Romnes, Chicago's center, stole the puck in front of the Detroit net. Said he, after the game: "I looked up to see Paul Thompson sweeping...
Died. Jiro Satoh. 26. captain of Japan's Davis Cup team, onetime ninth ranking player of the world; by leaping into the sea from a liner bound for England and the second Davis Cup round (with Australia); off Singapore. Lately he had been nervous, off his game, had wanted to return to Japan but tennis officials urged him to continue to England. His fiancee. Sanaye Okada, also a tennis player, said his last letters had not been despondent...
...Education in the U. S. is a beggar with a tin cup...