Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brookline's Country Club: the annual curling match (bowling on ice) for the Edwards Cup, against the Royal Montreal Club, 40-to-36; at Brookline. Mass. For the first time in the 35-year-old competition, the teams were tied (36-to-36) at the end of 14 ends, had to play off an extra...
...game tomorrow marks the second in the Intercollegiate Quadrangular Hockey League made up of Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard. This is the first year of this League, and the teams are competing for the Hobey Baker Cup, a trophy given in honor of a Princeton athlete, who, as an undergraduate, was considered the outstanding hockey player of his time
...posset cup...
...like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word...
Also U. S. G. A. named the Walker Cup team to play against Great Britain at St. Andrews in May: Francis Ouimet, captain; George T. Dunlap Jr., Harry Chandler Egan, Johnny Fischer, Johnny Goodman, W. Lawson Little Jr., Max Marston, Gus Moreland, Jack Westland. Notable was the dropping of McCarthy, Seaver, Johnston and Voigt. More notable was the selection of Chandler Egan, 50-year-old Oregon fruit grower who won his first national amateur championship 30 years ago, dropped out of national play for 20 years, came back strong in 1929. In last year's national amateur he defeated...