Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teams. The New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs whom they nosed out for last season's Stanley Cup (league championship) are again the favorites this year. Besides retaining their crack regulars-Ching Johnson, Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, who have been with the team since 1926-the Rangers have acquired two notable recruits. One is a defense man named Jean Pusie who played with Vancouver and was last year's high scorer in the Western Canada League. Pusie is 23, has a cauliflower ear from professional wrestling, never plays without his "lucky cap." The other recruit...
...final standings of the Harvard league show Winthrop as an easy winner, with Lowell placing second and Adams third. The Winthrop players receive medals, and the House keeps the cup, which it won last year...
...fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting of nations, Lord Curzon found himself without a single pair of pants with which to face...
...teaching career, Sumner's class was very large. "There had been, off and on, noise and inattention that had irked him sore. Toward the end of the year either the disorderly repented... or else feared reprisals; in any case there was bought for Sumner a large silver loving cup... Sumner took the cup and set it down on the table... he looked over the class in silence... without exhibiting any pleasurable emotion whatsoever. At length he spoke: I'm not accustomed to make valedictories, but one seems called for this time.' He stopped... and spoke with restrained emphasis...
...Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution is not hard to start. In a quavering voice, Alexander Throttlebottom wins the support of the Union League Club by letting the members believe that the revolution is directed against the British. The jokes about...