Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Joseph Tunney, retired fisti-cuffer, last week in Portsmouth, England, presented a silver cup to the Royal Marines as a token of goodwill from the U. S. Marines. But, earlier in the week, he had brewed illwill among newsmen...
Representative John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, Republican floor leader, was invited to both. He chose the barn festival. Why? Because he, Yale '91, was to receive a cup at the hands of Yale men. Tradition said that he must be there in person. The cup was inscribed to a man who "has won his 'Y' in life...
Three years ago, the Montclair's Yale alumni established these annual festivals in "Nick" Roberts' old barn. Previous winners of the " 'Y' in life" cup have been William Wallace Atterbury, '86, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Maj. Gen. Preston Brown...
...play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays the first-place winner; the winner of this final series is, for what reason it is difficult to tell, the World's Champion and the possessor of the Stanley Cup...
Will TIME'S expression: "dry as a cactus" hold water? Desert travelers sometimes split a barrel cactus in half, squeeze the pulp through a cloth, get a cup of sweetish water. The giant cactus, a mass of pulp held together by fibrous ribs, absorbs water on rainy days and swells out like a toad. Woodpeckers drill holes in the trunk, occupy them...