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Word: cupfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Abigail Stapleford Allen Lott, 21; from George M. Lott Jr.. 24. Davis Cup tennis player with whom she eloped to Elkton, Md. last October; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played brilliantly at Wimbledon, polished off his reputation in the Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired with Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, national intercollegiate champion. Perry with George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Doubles | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...York Yacht Club members talked last week as though the club had already received its challenge, expected within a fortnight, from barnacle-bearded Sir Thomas Lipton to race for the America's Cup in 1932. America's Cup racing next year will be done according to new and stricter specifications forbidding such oddities as the Enterprise's light and springy duralumin mast, or the winches below decks which made her easier to handle. Woodenmasted Weetamoe, slightly remodelled, might well be the 1932 defender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Head of the syndicate which built and raced the cup-winning Enterprise last year. Skipper Aldrich was her navigator in the trials. He thinks her run against Yankee off Martha's Vineyard was "the greatest race of its kind ever sailed." In her races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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