Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week boarded Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal at Poughkeepsie, steamed down the Hudson and up Long Island Sound to Newport. There, in the midst of a flotilla of pleasure craft valued at a billion dollars, the President planned to remain four days to witness the America's Cup races between British Challenger Endeavour and U. S. Defender Rainbow...
...most entertaining film went to Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. Douglas Fairbanks' British-made Private Life of Don Juan was voted the best world première. For giving the largest presentation of films, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America got a loving cup. Acclaimed as the world's best cinema performers were Katharine Hepburn and Wallace Beery. They got gold medals. So did Mickey Mouse...
Chief prize of the exhibition, the Mussolini Cup for the best foreign film, went to a decorous, highly instructive spool entitled Man of Aran...
When Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith and his blue Endeavour arrived in the U. S. last month, Endeavour became immediately the most feared challenger for the America's Cup since Shamrock 11 in 1901. Last fortnight she was favorite at odds of 7-to-5. Last week, after the start of the four-out-of-seven race series, U. S. Yachtsmen had no reason to alter their opinion. In two days of sailing, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow had been better handled, shown herself the faster boat in light airs. But Endeavour had proved that she is a fine...
...country on a good will tour, will arrive in Cambridge for a series of contests, among which will be the first soccer game for the Crimson boosters, and a track meet in the Stadium. Another interesting feature of the season's play will be the attempt to win the cup, emblematic of soccer supremacy in New England, donated last year by the team's manager, James H. Sampson...