topman
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Named for the job was young, handsome, curly-headed Rexford Guy Tugwell, topman of the Brain Trust.
From Time Magazine Archive
At musical's end, he is faced with the topman clich�: "You're all alone, Sammy Glick."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Wait a bit, my lads, and then won’t we give it you!” sung out Dick Trunnion, a sturdy topman, and many similar expressions were uttered by others.
From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Your position as a topman is a very exalted one.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
Here the topman closed his soliloquy, in order to agitate the tobacco again, it being impossible to conduct the process of chewing and talking at one and the same time.
From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore
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