Word: brimful
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...steel-worker dodges many a flying spark, many a molten stream, the liquid steel does not ordinarily waste itself on the pit floor. When steel-cooks know their business, the brew from the kettle furnace pours not into the pit, but into a many-tonned ladle. Filled to its brim and slobbering over, the ladle is moved along over a train of flatcars in which ingot-molds stand up some seven feet from the car-floors. From mold to mold the ladle hastens, filling each with its white-hot content. When the ladle has gone the length of the train...
...Come brim the mug and in the wanton fire...
Later in the week took place the public consistory at which Cardinals Rouleau, Binet, Lepicier and Szeredy received the great rolled-brim hats of their princely ranks. (Cardinal Segura y Saenz could not attend in person; will receive his hat at a later date...
...relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory all night, the night before the race. And whoop it up for our hero, name of Dennis, who wears Wetzel suits and snap brim hats, and never moves a muscle of his face...
Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor...