Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tension. At one press conference he discussed instead the high price of carrots and celery with Correspondent May Craig of Maine. From another press conference he absented himself, letting Secretary Steve Early do the honors. At week's end he showed himself at the President's Cup speed boat regatta on the Potomac but paid small attention to the races. Europe was on his mind. Returning from the races, the President again saw Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (fresh back from Paris), then Secretary Morgenthau. After dinner, from 10 p. m. until past midnight, he sat alone...
Viennese Waltzes (by Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar; Decca). A heart-touching musical trip back to Europe's 20th Century Golden Age. On five ten-inch records Harry Horlick's orchestra evokes a vanished world of kid gloves, claret cup and candlelight. Some of the numbers-most of which come from Kalman's Sari and Gypsy Princess, Lehar's Eva and Zigeunerliebe-were not previously available on U. S. records...
...Westmoreland last week, in spite of the presence of six-time-Winner Glenna Collett Vare, onetime British Champion Diana Fishwick Critchley and six of Britain's top-ranking lady golfers who came to the U. S. for the biennial Curtis Cup matches fortnight ago, phlegmatic Estelle Lawson Page and temperamental Patty Berg reached the final for the second year in a row-some-thing that had never happened before in a national golf championship...
After the first day of match play, in which favorite Charley Yates and four of his Walker Cup teammates were swept out of the tournament by dark horses, Spectator Vines was still hanging around. For Pat Abbott was the dark horse who had eliminated Walker Cupper Ray Billows, runner-up to Johnny Goodman in last year's championship...
...York City's metropolitan area are 20 union baseball teams. Twenty-one men's and 20 women's basketball teams compete for the Dubinsky Cup (offered by President David Dubinsky), the Hochman Trophy. In Fall River, Mass., a union local has a rifle team, teaches men and women workers to shoot straight. In Philadelphia is a union riding club. "Once," says the union, "it might have been said that horseback riding was too good for the common people, but the I. L. G. W. U. feels that nothing is too good for workers...