Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived, telegrams were stacked before him congratulating him on the acceptance he had not yet given. Mr. Heckscher, wearing a large bow tie, arose, adjusted his spectacles, placed himself before the nest of microphones to read his speech. So faint was his voice that .Mayor Walker had to cup his ears and lean forward. Nominator Heckscher gave "40 indictments" (reasons) why Mayor Walker should be renominated. He praised his administration as "brilliant." recalled the "goodwill" the Mayor had spread by junketing through Europe...
...Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most Englishmen utterly impossible. Yet soon the 2,000,000 readers of London's Daily Mail learned that " 'Hell and Maria' Dawes roared* as if he were on parade ground. While his audience sat silent, mesmerized, and almost embarrassed...
Quite as unusual from the British point of view was Guest Dawes's handling of the Vintners' massy, golden wassail cup. Brimming with stout English sack specially brewed of old sherry and spices the Vintners' Cup was supposed to be deeply quaffed in sociable succession, first by Toastmaster the sporting Earl of Derby, second by Ambassador Dawes, third by jovial Publisher-Peer Lord Riddell, finally by the company at large after suitable replenishments. But when Lord Derby had drunk ceremoniously and passed the cup, Teetotaler Dawes pursed his firm lips, brushed the Vintners' chalice against them...
...eleven other boats, won the third Eastern Yacht Club championship, at Marblehead, Mass. Charles Francis Adams Jr. sailed the famed sloop Vamtie, now owned by Gerald 13. Lambert ("Listerine"), in her 100th race against E. W. Clark's Resolute, her oldtime rival as defender of America's cup. Charles Francis Adams Jr., able son of an able father, won. Score of the 100 races: Vanitie, 55; Resolute, 45. Last week's Vanitie-Resolute course: 41 miles from Kittery to Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which...
Black's Grandstand. To watch the 1,200-mi. air race around England for the King's Cup last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...