Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunter would discover no likely candidates in the realm of sport. No golfer won more than one big match, and Robert Tyre Jones's record of 1930 (British & U. S. open, British & U. S. amateur) had not been remotely approached. Frank Shields, who was left off the Davis Cup team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might be called Play of the Year. However, it developed early trouble at the boxoffice. George M. Cohan...
...Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly wheat-farming in Kansas. Because farming has not proved so profitable as singing she is attempting a comeback. Tin-Cup Season...
Because the Metropolitan Opera Company went around with a tin cup last spring, begging for its life, top hats ermine coats and all other first-night finery were out last week to signal the beginning of another opera season...
...direction to the hole and hands me the club. I know by the club he hands me how far away the hole is and make the stroke accordingly. When it comes to putting, the chauffeur tells me the distance and sometimes my opponent helps by rattling on the cup...
Engaged. Dwight Filley Davis Jr., 26, only son of the onetime Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Coolidge Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (tennis); and Dorothea E. Gay, 22, Manhattan socialite, niece of Painter Walter...