Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occasionally Hart Schaffner & Marx also helps out its suppliers. After the post-War inflation, American Woolen Mills went to the company cup in hand, requesting $200,000. Mr. Schaffner drummed his desk when asked what he thought about it, then said: "Times are pretty hard. Better let them have a million...
...alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed glasses paid his franc and then...
...holes he played without a slip. On the 18th, a crowd of 5,000 packed around the green held its breath until he sank his putt, then roared its applause. An amiable, quiet young man who looks faintly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Nelson took his ball out of the cup and went indoors to get first prize-a check...
...York Rangers, professional hockey team: their two-out-of-three game series against the favored Montreal Maroons, for the right to play the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and hockey's world championship; 1-to-0 and 4-to-0; at New York, then Montreal...
...seized his driver, swung like a giant crane, and topped the ball just short of the green. There he grabbed a mashie, took another terrific swipe at the pellet, topped it again and it rolled into the cup...