Word: brimful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
...Califate (Islamic Papacy) and perpetual banishment from Turkey of all members of the once royal and spiritual House of Osman. 1925-Turkish men coerced to wear the hat instead of the fez, Turkish women encouraged to drop the veil. (To pious males hat-wearing caused spiritual agony, since the brim of the hat prevented them from touching their foreheads to the floor in prayer and Islamic ritual demands that one pray covered...
...come in sight. For 18 minutes until the last of the brokerage army had passed, the booing continued. In the rear of the reviewing stand Boss Curry of Tammany, who has the job of re-electing Mayor O'Brien in November, frowned under the brim of his silk...
...French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...
Neglected year after year, lackeys proudly dusted it off and filled it to the brim. Rapidly losing her appetite for war after the assassination of pugnacious President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. Peru had agreed to accept the League formula for the settlement of her undeclared war with Colombia over the seizure of Leticia last September. The settlement...