Word: topper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American course. There are stone walls to play over, tiered greens the size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather and sad. Nicknames are enough for the hazard: "The Twin Fangs of the Lady of Fife," "The Valley of Sin," "Hell Bunker." For a topper, there is the weather. The word "links," after all, originated in Scotland. It means "golf course by th sea," and in the case of St. Andrew; that means the North...
...city slickers who think they' ve seen everything: a logger jubilee on the banks of the Flushing River. Husky lumberjacks like "Big Bad John" Miller saw and chop through giant timber in jig time, logrollers joust each other into the amber waters, and a death-defying tree-topper climbs a Douglas fir to do the Charleston 110 ft. up-without...
...even a Martian can appreciate her mellow malt and hops. The show itself is really an animated cartoon that uses live people, chiefly Ray Walston as a professor of anthropology from one of the numerous universities on Mars, lately arrived by saucer. He disappears at whim like Topper, and he sprouts antenna horns that boing amusingly. Younger cats should...
Conversation Piece. Among the nation's three largest male wigmakers are Louis Feder, Taylor Topper, and Squires for Men. All have branches or outlets across the country, and all currently boast an annual volume well in excess of $1,000,000. Says one pleased Squires manager: "It used to be not too many years ago that the woman who dyed her hair was considered 'fast.' Now hair tinting by women is perfectly acceptable, and the same is happening with regard to toupees." The company requires that all branch managers must be balding: "You have to be able...
...Taylor Topper's General Manager Paul Caine likes to quote former Senator from Idaho Glen Taylor, who runs the manufacturing end: "The Senator is always saying that the only thing that will stop hair from falling is the floor. But today a hairpiece is acceptable. It is the most brilliant conversation piece in the world, and anybody who tries to conceal it is crazy. I've personally never known any kind of social rejection when I said I wore one, but I've had some very strange reactions from people who found out when I hadn...