Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders of the party will recognize...
There will be one limitation only. The lecturer will have no pointer long enough to reach the outermost stars at the top of the planetarium. He will use a beam of light instead...
Within, the sheetlet gloated. Columns aired triumphantly the doings of Photographer Richard Sarno in stealing the picture. Obtaining a top floor apartment next door he climbed out the skylight and crept to the roof edge. Patiently peering at the baby porch a floor below him, fortified with a roof repairman's tools and a bland air of industry in case he was surprised, the hours slipped by. Swaddled thickly the baby slept below. It was dusk, and no picture. The next day Sarno crept out on his roof again. Late in the morning Baby Vera stirred, tossed. The tiny...
...family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath has a gorgeously all-concealing top. . . . She has already given a preliminary party at which I was not present...
Throughout the week a column of 400 Marines under Major Archibald Young pressed forward into the fastness of central Nicaragua and finally occupied El Chipote, a mountain 5,000 feet high on the top of which existed, recently, one more of the war bases of General Augusto Cal- deran Sandino, now the sole Nicaraguan commander in the field against...