Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another outsider, Dancer Fred Astaire's 7-to-1 Triplicate, last week took the $79,000 winner's purse in the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. The two favorites in the race belonged to Astaire's old employer, M.G.M.'s Mayer; they ran second and fifth...
...Prague's Manes Kaverna last week, the people sat for hours over a cup of ersatz coffee until night came, and the red, blue and green lights strung in the poplars were turned on; a 15-piece band, trim in white linen jackets (though some musicians omitted neckties), fiddled nostalgia. Prague's current favorite, which was banned during the war as Red propaganda...
Eating at home or in restaurants, comfort-loving, balding 40-year-old Russel Wright constantly watches his fellow diners gripping cups, mentally jots down shortcomings of conventional tableware. Back in his Manhattan studio, he designs clay models to eliminate the bugs. He has made 500 studies for cup handles alone. For his new set, he tried 35 shapes for cups, 60 different handles...
...food situation is just as bad. Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...
...Kramer was temporarily excused from his job as a player on the U.S. Davis Cup team to compete at Wimbledon. This week, without him, the U.S. beat Mexico's Davis Cuppers to win the American zone playoffs...