Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young woman with extraordinary ears -definitely cup-shaped instead of reasonably flat-recently presented herself for examination at Chicago's Lying-in Hospital. She wanted to know whether, if she married, her children would inherit ears like hers. She had three brothers and one sister with similar cupped ears, three brothers and three sisters with normal ears. Speaking for all eleven she asked whether they were going to pass on the embarrassing abnormality to their children...
...week in the Journal oj Heredity. Five generations of the inquiring young woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend...
...might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...orthodox forehand style, 6-2. Then Helen Jacobs got her famous chop working, sent her opponent an endless procession of floating teasers, worried the second set away from her, 6-4, ran out the third, 6-2, for the match and the seventh U. S. Wightman Cup victory...
...tossing off an easy victory, but lost to Miss Marble, 6-3, 6-1. In the same sort of match, twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in her well-bred fashion beat left-handed Margot Lumb, English squash racquets champion. For the last doubles match Captain Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the Cup's sturdy donor who still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled, enjoyed herself so thoroughly in her first Wightman Cup match...