Word: topped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late of London, England Boston, Mass...
...shouted in alarm, women and children screamed. The glass top of the coffin was smashed in. Inside lay the false Blackamon, dead, his hands and face horribly gashed by broken glass. Losing his nerve in the midst of his performance, he had evidently, vainly, fought to free himself from being smothered alive...
...Wells used a phrase like this: 'Life will use me for its purpose.' That appears to me exactly like a man jumping from the top of Westminster Cathedral and saying, The force of gravity will...
...speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright. Injured: Mrs. Johnson's wash, by oil leaking from the treed ship; Student Engel's feelings, by words sprayed at him by irate Mrs. Johnson...
...unique feature of the new building is the new court room, on the top floor of the west wing. Here the dedication will be held. This court, modeled after the style of the old English Courts at Westminister, with seats for counsel inside the bar on the sides and at right angles to the judges bench as well as before the bench, is probably one of the finest court rooms in the country...