Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after all the trouble I went to on his account. . . ." Boasted a lanky comedian, ". . . Maybe you don't remember the night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny...
...Top, big, dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey...
...little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly, "Cora Carpenter? I don't remember any Cora Carpenter, but there may have been a girl of that name in the class ahead of me." At last, Cora Carpenter was found, scribbled over the top of a loose page, among the names of members of the class of 1875, the first to be graduated from Bellevue...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...
...consumption were "less . . . than any of our previous models." Top speed was 65 m.p.h. Getaway and pick-up surpassed many another type of machine. Works. Detroit wiseacres said that production on the new model would be kept down, at first, to around 300 per day. The Ford statement, however, said that all Ford plants were retooled, indicating a readiness to stride out rapidly towards the old Ford supremacy in mass production if the new models -and "moderate" prices-are well received...