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Arriving in Washington on the first lap of a crowded itinerary mapped out by his host, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Dr. Temple stepped off the train carrying two umbrellas, was met by Bishop James Edward Freeman, resplendent in silk topper. In the National Cathedral on Sunday, the Archbishop spoke into a microphone...
...evenings ago to live again a leaf from his own carefree yet, he hopes, not too unfruitful life. We learn only as we amuse ourselves--even if the form of amusement turns out to be a Deb party. So the happy Vagabond girded up his lions, got out his topper, and was off for the dance...
...full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber of Deputies puts on his silk topper the Chamber is automatically adjourned...
Although no official word has been forthcoming from the H.A.A. or other sources, it is understood that the predicted close contest for the honors between Milton Green '36, star timber topper, Norman Cahners '36, hammer thrower and coming sprint man, and R. C. Hall '36, high jumper, is responsible for the deadlock...
...Horses owned by the late Joseph Seagram and his son Edward Frowde Seagram, whose stables are not far from his mash vats at Waterloo, Ontario, had won the King's Plate 19 times before. Last week, paunchy little Distiller Seagram, dressed in a funereal overcoat, a gay, grey topper, watched his horses win the first and third races on the program before his black and yellow silks were carried to the post for the King's Plate by two fillies named Sally Fuller and Gay Sympathy. A few minutes later, when Sally Fuller had won by three lengths...