Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be three silver cups given as prizes, one to both winners of the doubles, and one to the winner of the singles...
Barbara Frietchie. All popular folk must expect to have liberties taken with them. Witness Wales, and now Whittier's heroine. As in the play by Clyde Fitch, Barbara of the silver screen appears as a youngster of twentysomething, author not only of America's first permanent wave but also of love in the bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara...
...four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl?the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory?Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge...
...John Silver, Pew, Billy Bones...
...English protested. The U. S. bowed. Another race was sailed. England won handily. Points : England, 108 1/4 ; U. S., 107. Having won last year on the Solent, the English were entitled to permanent possession of the Challenge Cup. Lady Baird of the invaders donated a 200-year-old silver tankard for future races...