Word: topping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
...other rope-bound, writhing watchmen?the whole force on duty at the Depot?were jammed into the brig with the gate guard. To them came muffled clanks and booms from above. The commanding Naval officer on duty, yanked from his bed, remembered that in the big safe on the top floor was $84,500 pay for the 300 Depot employes. For five hours robbers held the Navy's great supply base out of U. S. control...
...Top price at the Civic Repertory is only $1.50. The audience always contains many sheerly personal admirers of Directrix Le Gallienne, including mannish-looking women in suits tailored like hers and carrying canes. But these are minor causes for the Repertory's success. The major significance of the theatre is that it proves, like a corollary to the Theatre Guild, that fine dramatic art treated studiously, "artistically," is appreciated in Manhattan.? And though Miss Le Gallienne's chief associates?Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson, Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and Paul Leyssac?would merit headlines anywhere, major credit...
Whenever the National Horse Show is held in Madison Square Garden, a bowlegged groom is procured from somewhere, dressed in a red coat, and stationed with the top-hatted judges in the middle of the tanbark. Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel." Thus it has been for many years. Thus it was last week, in spite of all nebulous rumors that new blood and new money have sullied...
...battle of lines. Harvard reached its top form of the year. Harper, to me, appeared great on defence."--L. F. Daley...