Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please note the commencement program of the Southwest High School of K. C., Mo. The graduating class of 1928 had as its President, E. Elliott Norquist, National Oratorical Finalist and winner of 2nd place at Washington, D. C. Its vice president was Junior Coen, member of the Davis Cup team, and pronounced by Tilden the greatest player for his age the world has ever seen...
...Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved well of all concerned and must not be harmed or hindered in their progress toward Mukden...
...fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also prized. Said William Averell Harriman, financier, owner of the two ponies: "They were two of the best polo ponies in the world. I raised them from colts. They were priceless...
...match out, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...
President Roosevelt once stopped at Nashville at the Hermitage (Andrew Johnson's home) and had a cup of this coffee. He smacked his lips and demanded another. Cried he: "Good to the last drop...