Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also challenged last week was French Tennist Jean Borotra by Paris Sportswriter Didier Poulain, as the culmination of an exchange of insults started by Sportswriter Poulain's insistence that Borotra had let France down by refusing to play singles in the French Davis Cup matches...
...Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse...
Long: Mr. President, they have not drunk any coffee. They think they have drunk coffee. That stuff is nothing but slop. If Senators had ever had a cup of coffee down in Louisiana, they would realize that there was no one in Washington who knew how to make coffee...
After the judges had heard all the contestants they awarded a silver cup and the U. S. train-calling championship to Rock Island's Barrowcliffe for his rendering of the following call...
...last week Waiting for Lefty had been banned in seven cities on one ambiguous pretext or another. In Boston the police ran the New Theatre Players out of two houses, finally locked up four actors on charges of "profanity and blasphemy." After winning the George Pierce Baker Cup at the Yale Drama School for its performance of the play, the Unity Players were forbidden in future to act Waiting for Lefty anywhere in New Haven. It took a concerted move by University liberals to smash the ban. When the Collective Theatre tried to put on Waiting for Lefty in Newark...