Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grays of Central Square hoyer by; gay bucks and their plebeian maids are on the shabby avenue, tempting one to stray abroad. The Vagabond, pigeon-breasted from long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...
...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...