Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly anxious to give a stirrup-cup to the political theory of the Nationalist order of things. The happy result of this emphasis on things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which...
...season's schedule will be a Dartmouth-Harvard Ski Meet, which this year will be run off on Mt. Mooselauke, in New Hampshire, on May 6. Taking place alternately on Mt. Washington and Mooselauke, this meet is expected to become the "Harvard-Yale" of skiing, and a challenge cup will be awarded the winners. This contest is to consist of the 25 best skiers from both colleges, graduate or undergraduate...
Married. Anna Hope Dale Biddle, 31, footloose Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage...
...Hoover retired to become the squire of Palo Alto, and Mr. Brown awoke one morning to find himself on trial for accepting bribes. But the unkindest cut of all was when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife have adopted a baby...
...years ago Mr. Hall withdrew from heavy competition, applied himself to the executive phase of the sport. He was for three years president of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, L. I., three years treasurer of U. S. L. T. A. and a member of the Davis Cup Committee...