Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The cockles of my ole heart surged with joy, and I hurrahed and voiced my feelings at, the top of my voice when I saw the picture of "Lindy" at last adorning TIME. . . . It must be that the Editor of TIME is a seer who looks into the future, and who believes in keeping the best to the last and making the most appropriate statements in the most logical TIME...
...Congress. Of all the delegates, Dr. Rowe was perhaps more conversant with the nature of the Congress than anyone. The Union of which he is chief is the permanent agency for that "good will," "co-operation," "understanding" etc., etc. which the periodic Pan-American Congresses celebrate in top hats and cutaways (see p. 13). If asked to state reasons for the President of the U. S. signalizing the 1928 Congress by a visit and speech, Dr. Rowe might have explained in effect as follows...
Citizens were startled. Was the Nicaraguan affair so grave that the grim-jawed top Marine of all must take command? An "official" report was published that General Lejeune's departure had been precipitated by a dark thing in the Marine Corps. Two Marine deserters, said the story, were teaching tricks of their trade to the rebel, Sandino...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
...remarks: "Really," she said, "I don't think God has the time or the inclination to worry much about whether I smoke a cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...