Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent Committee on the State of the Church rejected a proposal to broaden the grounds on which Methodist ministers may remarry divorced persons; turned down a "fanatical"' suggestion that "cup" be substituted for "wine"' in the wording of the communion service ritual; sent to the general conference an opinion that unofficial groups like the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service may continue to call themselves Methodist provided they emphasize their unofficial status...
Married. Dwight Filley Davis, 56, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the famed Davis Cup; and Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin, 49, onetime Republican National Committeewoman, celebrated socialite Wet; in Manhattan. She is his second wife; he is her third husband...
...Jeannette Knepprath and Secretary Emma Phaler. A spiritualist, married to a Milwaukee chiropractor, President Knepprath has been handling bowling affairs for 18 years, is still a poor bowler herself. So is Secretary Phaler whose pleasant efficiency ("She is the kind of woman you could run over and borrow a cup of sugar from") has made her the backbone of the organization. A certified public accountant, she sends out the prize money so soon after the tournament's end that the delegates gladly elected her for the fourth time. Despite underground opposition from a rebellious Chicago clique, Jeannette Knepprath received...
Considerably less famed than the Walker and Ryder Cup play between the best U. S. and British male golfers, the biennial Curtis Cup matches are a healthy, respectable female counterpart. Last week in Scotland a picked U. S. team of five oldtimers and 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg eked out a 4½-to-4½ tie, retained the trophy, which has yet to leave the U. S. Real winner was par which, ably assisted by the weather, gave both teams a sound trouncing...
...match in the singles, the U. S. needed only a tie in the last singles match for a clean-cut victory. This seemed assured when Mrs. Leona Cheney, all square with Miss Anderson on the 18th green, played her approach shot to within an inch of the cup. Miss Anderson,, however, thoroughly at home in the Scottish mist, laid down a putt which slithered 20 ft. across the soaked green, plopped straight into the cup...