Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournament, in which no U. S. team was entered. Last week, Polo moved to Long Island for the U. S. Open Championship. This year the Open has an extra significance: the winner will represent the U. S. against Argentina in the year's second major international series, the Cup of the Americas, starting at Meadow Brook Sept. 19. In last week's first-round matches, all played the same afternoon on three fields within easy motoring distance of each other in Long Island's Nassau County, the Hurricanes beat Old Westbury, 11-to-6; Texas nosed...
Presentation of the President's Cup, and induction of new officers...
...Gerard B. Lambert's famed yacht Yankee, smartly handled by her owner against the seven other biggest racing sloops now in commission in the U. S.: the King's Cup race. No. 1 sailing event of years when there is no contest for the America's Cup; in light breezes, off Newport...
...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...
...launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis XVI "took his very emetics in state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from...