Cosmo of early TV

Usage examples of topper.

He pulled the fitted sheet back and saw that the mattress had been covered with a soft polyurethane topper.

In this belittered and uncorseted neighbourhood Topper feels more at ease.

In their own place, the gentlemen left their toppers, bemedalled officers their caps.

Topper had thought he had seen the dog at his maddest, but never had he seen him wear such a completely gone expression as the one now torturing his face.

And out there along that moonpath the small figure of Marion Kerby is speeding farther and farther away from him, Topper very much fears.

Topper, not to be outdone, snatched her fleeting triumph by saying that he was just as well pleased.

As the glossy horses pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper.

There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.

All around us in gray toppers and frothy dresses the Ascot crowd swirled, a feast to the eye in the sunshine, a ritual in make-believe, a suppression of gritty truth.

His topper wobbles, as if a strange A-life experiment is struggling to escape from its false bottom.

The trader eased off the beaver topper of which he was inordinately proud, mopped his brow and decided that he would not let the young man spoil his air of bonhommie.

In front of him stood the district attorney, Ed Topper, a slight man in his forties, with crinkly salt-and-pepper hair cut en brosse, and cold, black eyes.

If, right after that, I ask him to put on lavender gloves and a topper and distribute the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, there will be a divorce in the family.

Ben's long knitted muffler was draped incongruously over the chandelier, dangling its soiled tassels, and his many hats - including the silk topper and the Santa Claus cap - were to be seen on tables, hatracks, chair seats and lamp chimneys.

Lunch in the Struan box for the thirty-six guests had been a lavish buffet of hot Chinese foods or, if they preferred, hot steak-and-kidney pie and vegetables, with plates of smoked salmon, hors d'oeuvres and cold cuts, cheeses and pastries of all kinds and as a topper, a meringue sculpture of the Struan Building all prepared in their own kitchen.