Word: topnotcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such as these before them last week, the peers, walking two by two in reverse order of precedence, solemnly entered the House of Lords, each doing his best to take a back seat. Thus the dukes, who entered last, found nothing vacant except the front seats appropriate to their topnotch status...
...school figures, won her first national women's championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently won the admiration of the staff of the New York Times, for which she writes a competent by-line account of women's sports. Only one peculiarity mars...
Henry Clay Frick died in 1919. His house was untouched until Mrs. Frick followed him in 1931. Since then their capable, ginger-haired daughter Helen has made the Frick art collection her career, almost her religion. With her own funds she assembled and housed a topnotch art library next door to her father's house (TIME, Jan. 21). As the most active member of the trustees of the $15,000,000 fund that was left to administer the collection, she has weeded out and improved her father's public legacy in the past four years until...
...Arnold's daughter. Fast, well photographed by Archie Stout, Bar-20 Rides Again is the best of its series (others: Hopalong Cassidy, Eagle's Brood), should prove eminently acceptable not only to U. S. youngsters but also to older folk who regard horse operas as topnotch entertainment. Second only to the works of Zane Grey, the Hopalong Cassidy series have sold 1,500,000 copies in the U. S., have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish, the Scandinavian. Clarence Edward Mulford published his first Western in 1907 when he was a city clerk in Borough Hall. Brooklyn. Seventeen...
...cohesion. A new pitcher, Roxie Lawson, bought by Manager Cochrane in August has pitched two successive shutouts. The team's fielding average is .979 compared to .974 last year. Its batting average is 289, exactly the same as the Cubs . Both the Tigers and the Cubs have topnotch infields. The Tigers have a super-star Hank Greenberg, on first base. Their pitching ace, Schoolboy Rowe a lanky Arkansan like Lon Warneke last year won 16 games in a row. Until Aug 3 this year he won only half his games then took nine out of his next eleven. Furthermore...