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...prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald with her father, a crowd of college men wearing golf clothes to show their nonchalance, a host of pretty people who bowed to other people who did not know them, went up the stairs and in the door...
...mile when pressed, the Green cannot match him in this event. In the same way Captain E. M. Wells of Dartmouth, intercollegiate champion in the 120-yard high hurdles, will not be forced to his best stride to defeat W. J. Henrich '28, the University's best high timber topper...
...conflicts in the minds of his characters, though perfectly imaginable, are poorly imagined. They have not been viewed with sufficient perspective to prevent their growing maudlin. The action is unbalanced. It wobbles off into a mist of emotion and disappears from sight. Author Smith's last book, Topper (1926), was in a happier, lighter, suburban vein to which his readers may well wish he would return...
...stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then the Willingdon grey topper and the King black topper revolved toward each other in puzzlement. Even with glasses they could not pick the winner. The judges said: "Troutlet...
...Topper - Thome Smith ( $2). Suburban humor of a high order. The facilities of TIME'S book department are at its readers' disposal...