Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to Helen Wills Moody, Wimbledon's favorite U. S. lady tennis player is brown-eyed little Sarah Palfrey Fabyan who, almost singlehanded, beat the British Wightman Cup team in 1934 by winning two matches which everyone expected her to lose. Last week, 10,000 of Mrs. Fabyan's admirers gathered in Wimbledon's uncomfortable old stands to see whether history would repeat itself. It was the second day of the Wightman Cup series. England was leading, two matches to one with four matches left...
...Fabyan's shrewd lobs counted in the second, 6-3. In the third set, at 5-all, came the turning point. The U. S. pair broke through Miss James's serve and then, with Mrs. Fabyan serving, won set, match & series, for the Cup the U. S. has held since...
...polo matches in the last few years have drawn crowds as large as baseball games. Determined to make polo in England more profitable, London's swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured readers who might have thought grey toppers were essential: "Dress: lounge suits." Unfortunately, the Hurlingham Polo Committee over looked the main feature of U. S. polo's sudden rise in popularity: 50? admission. Cheapest...
Popularization is not the only department of the game in which British poloists would like to copy their U. S. rivals. They would also like to play as ably. When competition for the Westchester Cup began in 1886, ten years after polo was introduced in the U. S. by Publisher James Gordon Bennett, England won regularly. The famed "Big Four" of U. S. polo - Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney and the Waterbury brothers, Monty and Larry - turned the tide in 1909, won again in 1911 and 1913, without losing a game. The U. S. lost the Westchester Cup...
...first thing to appear was a dizziness, with diplopia [double vision]. The following day, I was unable to hold a cup in my right hand, and my mental processes were beginning to fail me. On the third day, I was a wreck. I saw everything double, and in trying to feed myself, I was always feeding the wrong face. . . . Mental processes were askew. . . . My surgical instruments that I had used for years seemed strange to me, and while I knew what they were, could not get it through my head how to use them. Writing was out of the question...