Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting tale, even though the race for the King's cup turned out to be, for the larger schooners at any rate, merely a protracted cruise in pleasant weather. Charts, the ship's log complete, diagrams, lists of provisions, in fact every aspect of the race is related, with one notable exception...
...woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Yachting, polo, horse-racing and balloon-racing were boomed by Bennett. Many a Bennett Cup still stands. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three terms and sailed five races across the Atlantic...
...keep any personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
...alone from San Francisco home. Because he was the first boy under 21 to make a transcontinental solo flight, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation gave him a $1,000 prize, Siemens & Halske Motor Co. (whose engine drove his plane) gave him a silver loving cup, and, last week, President Coolidge shook his hand...