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Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...
...Have the patron pour his own-it is a psychological fact that the average customer will fill his glass to nowhere near the brim and be perfectly contented...
...Behind the Rising Sun" are such old favorites as Tom Neal and "Margo." The acting is second only to the plot in gruesomeness. In fact, Warner Brothers' pleasure dome is filled to the brim with bleeding people and murderous Orientals. Also the maiden with the dulcimar hints that maybe we'd better concentrate on the terrible menace of Japan...
Legend says that when P. T. Barnum, James Gordon Bennett, Edwin Booth or Colonel Joe ("Gin") Rickey began to brim over at the Hoffman, Bouguereau's girls came to life. In 1934 a smaller Nymphs and Satyr appeared in Trenton, N.J.'s Stacy-Trent Hotel, where novices are told that on the stroke of midnight the picture turns around, reveals the nymphs to better advantage. Robert R. Meyer, owner of the smaller painting, thinks that Bouguereau may have painted a second, but has not proved...
...Notable exceptions: 70 patrons of an Atlanta parking lot where an obliging Negro attendant beat the deadline by filling every tank to the brim, collected money and ration coupons afterward, earned undying gratitude and $35 in tips...