Word: topping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Garner read the statement, chuckled, said "No comment." Newshawks began checking, soon learned that "Cactus Jack" quit high-stake poker about 1920, has since played seldom and then for "buttons."* All top-rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for good corn, scorns soda, ice and fancy fixings, pours water-tumblers half-full, says "Let's strike a blow for liberty" and chases with a little "branch-water" out of the faucet. He has never been seen drunk or even lightly groggy. After 6 p. m. for some...
...Tireless, pee-wee Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant of Atlanta, oldest (28) and smallest (5 ft. 3) of the 1939 contenders, who has been among the top ten for the past six years and is famed not only as a tumblebug and crowd pleaser (he is almost as efficient horizontally as vertically) but also as one of the greatest retrievers in the history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis...
...Hugh Dillman (once Mrs. Horace Elgin Dodge), vice president of the Detroit Symphony, has given it some $1,000,000 in 20 years, but this year felt obliged to reduce her contribution from $50,000 to $30,000-top donation in the drive. Moreover, the Symphony has sadly missed its late, lionized Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, whose successors, Coconductors Victor Kolar and Franco Ghione, are competent but barely kittenized...
Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...
While descriptions of battles, complex campaigns, intrigues, finances are all top-drawer Pratt, clear and simple as the maps that dot the book, readers are apt later on to find such Prattlings as these tucked away in their mental bottom drawers...