Word: topper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William...
Arriving in Washington on the first lap of a crowded itinerary mapped out by his host, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Dr. Temple stepped off the train carrying two umbrellas, was met by Bishop James Edward Freeman, resplendent in silk topper. In the National Cathedral on Sunday, the Archbishop spoke into a microphone...
...evenings ago to live again a leaf from his own carefree yet, he hopes, not too unfruitful life. We learn only as we amuse ourselves--even if the form of amusement turns out to be a Deb party. So the happy Vagabond girded up his lions, got out his topper, and was off for the dance...
...full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber of Deputies puts on his silk topper the Chamber is automatically adjourned...
Although no official word has been forthcoming from the H.A.A. or other sources, it is understood that the predicted close contest for the honors between Milton Green '36, star timber topper, Norman Cahners '36, hammer thrower and coming sprint man, and R. C. Hall '36, high jumper, is responsible for the deadlock...