Word: atop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand." Recently Death pounced upon the great black tomcat which has dozed of a morning these many years atop the bar. Bleary bibbers were inconsolable. Mournfully they protested that without the tomcat Finch's would not be Finch...
Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose...
...night last week. Meanwhile, at the Cotroceni Palace, surgeons were operating upon King Ferdinand, who was kept in ignorance of the fire. Prince Nicholas watched the blaze, was present when the Throne was carried out to safety and superstitious onlookers cheered, believing its destruction would have blighted the Dynasty. Atop these sensations came another...
Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
...motorman opened a valve, admitting water to the mechanism which works the railway. Gently jolting, the car moved perpendicularly up the cliff, atop which is perched the glorious white marble Sacre Coeur. Courteous, the Abbe Loubiere pointed out the "sights." Awed by the splendor of the view, slightly seasick at the sheer drop below them, the three tourists barkened eagerly...