Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Philip Mangone, 73, women's-ready-to-wear manufacturer who developed the three-piece suit and the topper in the 1930s, in Manhattan...
...This Bell portable sewing machine, the world's finest. This gleaming Westinghouse freezer brings you beauty, convenience, economy. You'll be at your loveliest with a two-year supply of Tangee's Tropicana Orange lipstick. The next prize ... I mean gift," etc., etc. Then came the topper: "a special, never-to-be-forgotten present"-an Esther Williams swimming pool. The benediction: "This is the National Broadcasting television network." Afterward, burly stagehands struck the chapel set and carted off the china and silverware, leaving the guests to eat their wedding cake off paper towels...
When a touring U.S. rodeo troupe moseyed unwhooping into Manila's own White House, Malacanan Palace, pretty Teresita Magsaysay, 22, eldest daughter of the Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, borrowed a ten-gallon topper, looked set to ride, tall in the saddle, into the Golden West...
...defeat which they blame largely on Stevenson's association with the Truman record. If they had any doubts, Truman settled the matter last August when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks ago when Truman spoke in defense of Alger Hiss. For these remarks, Truman's opponents say, he can never be forgiven, but can he ever again be useful to a Stevenson ticket...
...Timber Topper. In Jacksonville, figuring it was only a matter of time before a large, diseased magnolia tree in his yard would fall on the house, Walter Rivers hired a crane to uproot it, watched mutely as the crane slipped, sent the tree crashing through his roof...