Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucky" Beatty ever since 1938 when he became the youngest (28) owner ever to win the Derby at Epsom Downs (with Bois Roussel). In that same year Peter's Foxglove II (purchased the night before the race from his good friend Prince Aly Khan) took the Gold Cup at Ascot. On that occasion, Peter invited 500 guests, including the Duke of Kent, to celebrate at a glittering ball in a specially built banqueting hall at his Regent's Park mansion...
After reading Roosevelt and the Russians, many readers will still find it hard to condone the deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost...
Meanwhile, other British beasts were reverting to type. "A blue tit," wrote a correspondent to the letters column of the Times of London, "flew in at my window this morning, woke me up by thumping a Balzac novel, and proceeded to reconnoitre a cup...
Beckmann, who took out his U.S. citizenship papers last year, teaches at the Brooklyn Museum Art School two mornings a week, turns up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel almost every afternoon at 5:00 for a cup of solitary coffee amidst the potted palms. "It is there," he says, "that I make my fantasies for my work." He often puts fish in his pictures "because I like fish, both to eat and to look at. Also they are symbols." What do they symbolize? "Geist-spirit," Beckmann replies positively. "But the man who looks at my pictures must figure them...
...half-time formation the Dartmouth band formed a beer mug, and then emptied it. The Crimson promptly raised the problem of liquor consumption to a more sophisticated level by popping the cork from a huge bottle of champagne and pouring the sparkling liquid into an awaiting cup. They finished off the whole affair with an ultra-polite...