Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chained up for five years outside the Hunter's Inn on Montauk Highway near Brookhaven, L. I. have been two black bears called Cup and Saucer. Their master, Gardner Murdock, is a grizzled oldtimer, gruff but kindly, locally famed as a duck-shooters' guide on Great South...
...last week eleven-year-old Grant Taylor Jr. had saved some apples from his school lunch. Going by the Hunter's Inn he went into the yard and tossed an apple to Saucer, the she bear. He tossed another to Cup. In hunger or jealousy, Saucer lunged to get Cup's apple too. Her worn chain snapped...
...neck, clawing and biting at his shrieking face. Passing motorists stopped to watch the frightful scuffle which sent dead leaves flying in the autumn wind. But they did not get out of their cars. A neighbor with a shotgun was too late to do anything but kill Saucer, and Cup too. Little Grant Taylor was dead, mangled so badly that they did not let his parents...
...guaranteed profits from "byproducts" (i.e., endorsements). All Vines had to do was join Tilden and Frenchman Henri Cochet on an eight-month playing tour beginning next January with a Vines-Tilden match in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took the $50,000 contract, abandoned U. S. amateur tennis. Bitterly chagrined were the other members...
...Thomas H. Somerville's bay gelding Trouble Maker: the 35th running of the Meadow Brook Hunt Cup; from Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo, by a length; at Westbury...