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Word: brimful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Freshmen Cavort With Swim Star | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...song score for the new musical gleams with the gilt-edged Porter signet. The author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...didn't even know there was such a game. In Fort Worth, at twelve, he made the startling discovery that caddies at Glen Garden Country Club made 65? a round, better than he could do selling papers at Union Station. He strolled over, hands in pockets and hat brim upturned, to find out what it took to be a caddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...piling on too much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors is so crammed to the brim with lurid scenes and dated dramaturgy that there is a strange air about it of the Franco-Prussian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...best head-geared men in the U.S.," declared the International Artists Committee (illustrators, artists and photographers), include Harry S. Truman ("The Front Brim Turned Up type"), Lucius Beebe ("Most Inappropriate Wearer of the Silk Top Hat type"), and Henry A. Wallace ("The Turban type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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