Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America's Cup...
...Manhattan's City Hall, Mayor James John Walker presented a very heavy gold cup to Sir Thomas Lipton. It was the cup for which U. S. people who admire Sir Thomas had been sending in money-a consolation cup to show they thought him a good loser. Sir Thomas was feeling too badly to read all of his speech but got through some of it. ". . . After one of my former attempts to lift the cup I received a letter from a lady sympathizer inquiring whether it was true that the Americans had put something in the water to prevent...
...warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group got going with an inaugural steeplechase for a cup put up by the Duke of Beaufort. Last week they held their great promised event-a steeplechase modeled on the English Grand National at Aintrée. The King of Spain had donated a cup for it and the Grasslands group added $5,000 prize money. Partly the race was a promotion...
...every one knows, Secretary Adams' activities also included repeated trips to Boston and Newport before and during the America's Cup races...
Following the Christmas recess the Topiarian Club of the Architectural School begins its sixteenth annual competition, open only to second and third year men and lasting three days. Three judges chosen from among outside practitioners will award the prizes: the first a silver cup; the second a book. Second year men are already working on a housing problem at Waverley Oaks while third year men are constructing an assumed graduate school of fine arts. The plans for the outdoor areas will be exhibited...