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...found it was, too small for practicable use on formal occasions. I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush...
...might have been expected. The outer rooms were festive to the point of turbulence, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, sitting at a long table in an inner room, was not available to all comers. He received Al Smith. Jack Dempsey got in for a moment. Bernard Mannes Baruch (in silk topper), curly-headed "Sonny" Whitney (who had not won his race for Congress but was supposedly in line for a sub-Cabinet job), Boss McCooey of Brooklyn, President Sam Levy of the Borough of Manhattan-all such, of course, had access. But through all their cordialities and rejoicing, Franklin Roosevelt continued...
They pictured British Secretary for War Minister Viscount Hailsham pacing up & down his suite in the Hotel Chateau Laurier when his baggage failed to arrive. They imagined him exclaiming, "My Kingdom for a frockcoat and topper...
Captain Record, who will defend his crown in the 70-yard hurdle race, will have stiff competition from a brilliant field including MacDonald of Holy Cross, Laughlin of Bowdoin, and Healey of N. Y. U. The great Crimson timber-topper, however, is almost unbeatable at his best and is concentrating on his specialty alone, thereby remaining the favorite...
...Catholic Bruning's last duties in Rome was to pay a formal call on the Pope. It was successful but slightly disorderly. Somebody removed Chancellor Bruning's silk hat from the German Embassy just as he was about to leave for the Vatican, leaving in its place a tiny topper that balanced precariously on his domelike forehead. At the Vatican the Swiss Guards were wrongly informed of the hour of his arrival. Parti-colored men at arms were still scurrying about the courtyard of San Damaso when the German automobile drew up. Foreign Minister Curtius, who is Protestant, paid...