Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associates helped the Solicitor General to his seat. The crowd craned their necks. The Justices stared. At length Chief Justice Hughes rose and the Justices filed out of the chamber. Mr. Reed was helped to a private room. A cup of coffee was fetched for him. After 30 minutes he went home and to bed. Next day the Department of Justice announced that Mr. Reed would plead no more in the case of Lee Moor. Instead, a Government brief would be filed with the Court...
...stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished and its directors resorted to a tin-cup campaign...
With a capacity of two and a half quarts, the crude cup is of silver and devoid of ornament. Its rim has been turned to make a smooth surface for drinking. It rests in a loose silver filigree holder of elaborate workmanship which shows, in a framework of vine leaves, birds and flowers, two figures of the youthful and the mature Christ and ten Apostles and Saints. All the faces are individual portraits. Though there is no way of dating the inner cup, most experts seem to agree that the large outer holder was made not later than the last...
Owner of this ancient treasure is a Syrian antique dealer named Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, who is careful not to claim too much for his cup. As exhibited last week, it is referred to only as the Great Chalice of Antioch, but Mr. Kouchakji has published at his own expense a vast two-volume monograph by famed Antiquary Gustavus Augustus Eisen, which gives the reader much to think about...
...Antioch, he opined that the book covers, the cross and the smaller chalice were immensely valuable, possibly 4th Century work. When he saw the Great Chalice he felt like Parsifal. Boiled down, his arguments in behalf of its historic worth are as follows: ¶ The decoration of the outer cup corresponds remarkably with other authenticated ist Century Roman pieces. ¶ The earliest known reproductions of the Eucharist, in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, give it exactly the form of this cup. Christians in 75 A. D. were already numerous but very poor. The outer cup must have cost a great...