Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rear White House veranda Mrs. Hoover gave a tea last week. To it went as honor guests Yoshiro Ohta and Tamio Abe, Japanese team in the Davis Cup preliminaries. The same day, headlines screamed?DREADED JAPAN INVADER AT LAST ATTACKS CAPITAL! The "invader" was not the Japanese tennis players but Japanese beetles which had just been discovered in White House foliage. Department of Agriculture experts advanced upon the pests with chemicals...
...Sussanne Winghardy, rivals for the favor of a stalwart young Budapestian, repaired to a clearing in a secluded wood near the city. A friend went with them, carrying a long green baize bag. Soon the clearing echoed with the harsh scrape of steel, the clear ring of blade ion cup hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...
...players were Yoshiro Ohta, Tamio Abe, John Hennessey, John Van Ryn. Their match was Japan v. the U. S. in the semi-finals of American Zone preliminaries for the Davis Cup. The U. S. won four of the five matches, but not without Japan's Ohta defeating John...
American Zone Davis Cup play was to be finished at Detroit on June 1, the U. S. v. Cuba. The winner goes to France...
...Carnegie Cup. Gleefully tugging against the elastic water of Lake Cayuga last week, Yale's crew beat Cornell in the Carnegie Cup race-the first Cornell defeat of the season. Throughout the race it rained. Princeton, also competing, finished last. Where other crews use a long stroke, Princeton crews use a short, choppy stroke which Coach Chuck Logg learned at the University of Washington. Last week, Coach Chuck said he would not yet chuck his system...