Word: topper
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...ringing the bell to hear Mrs. Green's high voice crying "If it's another bill I won't pay it!" At home, Father Green wore a Turkish fez; outside, a silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan," beat Julian with a walking stick. Nothing worse had happened since Julian's cousin sat down at the piano and innocently played...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
...that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
Bewildered or not, the U.S. was also working. A symbol of its working attitude was Robert Price (see cut), a lathe operator for Allis-Chalmers, who rushed to the factory in his full dress and topper from a New Year's party. In a huge Packard factory in Detroit, making parts for Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engines, one good union man, tuxedo-clad, ran his machine through the dawn of the New Year...
...stick in the throat. "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" is an exception. The ordinarily callous producers, script writers, camera men, idea men, rewriters and their uncles' brothers' cousins who for years have scraped the bottoms of their distorted imaginations and come up with every kind of recipe from "Frankenstein" to. Topper Keeps Returning" have at last fashioned a delightful fairy tale of this 1941 world...