Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Cup is one of the strangest sporting trophies in the world. It was originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room...
...Stanley Cup's peculiarities are not limited to its appearance. It is awarded each year, not to the team which wins most games in the National Hockey League season, but to the one which, when the season is over, wins a tournament that excluded this year only the three feeblest teams in the league. One of the first teams eliminated in the tournament last fortnight were the New York Rangers who won the Stanley Cup last year. The Toronto Maple Leafs, by far the ablest team in the National League judged by their season's record, were...
...stable boys, was a glutton and had to wear a muzzle between meals to prevent him from swallowing stones, sticks, or bits of harness. Grown milder and 160 lb. heavier with age, he is now more tractable and far wiser. He drinks water from a golden cup which was one of his prizes. On his birthday last week, he behaved as usual-ate four quarts of oats, galloped four miles, sunned himself in paddock for two hours. A cake containing 17 carrots instead of candles, presented to Man o' War by the Lexington Board of Commerce, was eaten...
Died. Wilson Marshall, 64, yachtsman; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Winner of a gold yachting cup in 1905 from Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mr. Marshall, during the War, gave it to the Red Cross for auctioning. Each time the highest bidder, having paid, returned the cup for further auctioning. When a series of such auctions had realized $125,000, Mr. Marshall decided to smash the cup, melt the gold for Red Cross benefit. Before an audience which included President Wilson he cracked it once. The cup fell apart, turned out to be mostly pewter, worth...
...Loeb's great "personality" he chatted with railroad tycoons, painters, writers, singers-all wanting help. And there last week, in the private dining room on the fourth floor, Death came to Otto Kahn. He was sitting over his coffee with Partner Benjamin Buttenwieser. Suddenly he slumped forward. His cup rattled to the floor. Before a doctor could reach him the 67-year-old banker was dead of cardiac thrombosis...