Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Waiter Brown looked puzzled as he went back to the kitchen of the dining car. As everyone knows, including Calvin Coolidge, pumpkin pie never has a top crust. Waiter Brown conferred with the chef. Soon he returned with another piece of pumpkin pie. Mrs. Coolidge was smiling...
Waiter Brown: "Here is one with jest a little more brown on top. The pies with crust on 'em were ate by the Secret Service...
...year the approach of an important game found the squad without work for two weeks due to the lack of ice. Resourceful as Ulysses, the manager produced a dozen pairs of roller skates. Up to the flat top of the Stadium trudged the team, and donned their rollers. A pistol was fired, and the men darted off to skate skate the top of the horseshoe and back. Tire trouble, specifically the loss of the rubber covering of the skate wheels, caused the withdrawal of all the entrants but one. He finished and still holds the Stadium roller skating record...
...dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
John Quillin Tilson of New Haven, Conn., worked his way through Yale and was graduated the same year (1891) that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...