Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three drives a minute. At 12:20, on his 805th wham, a ball trickled into the cup...
...birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with heavier birds just...
...Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Games film (four hours running time) and to Vittorio Mussolini's Luciano Serra, Pilota, an ecstatic drama of Italian wings over Ethiopia. Walt Disney's world favorite, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was favored with a special...
...eager were the British to carry back the Cup this year, after five unsuccessful attempts, that they scoured the Empire for the best ponies they could get (the Nawab of Bhopal and the Maharaja of Kashmir, two of the richest men in India, donated eleven), shipped them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
...four: Mike Phipps, Tommy Hitchcock, Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest. Fortnight ago, in the first of the two-out-of-three-game series, they were trounced 11-to-7. Last week the drubbing was even worse. The U. S. side won, 9-to-4, retained the Cup that has not crossed the Atlantic since...