Word: brimmed
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...greeted with hostility by Hawaii's ruling Protestant-missionary families from the moment he arrived in Honolulu in 1864. He eventually volunteered to serve the leper colony on Molokai, became a beloved, if eccentric figure there; he wore a flowered native dress under his cape, tied up the brim of his battered clerical hat with string. At the age of 49, he died of leprosy, or Hansen's disease...
...English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen if I put in a long-distance call from my desk right now? No answer? No such number? No such country?" Highest Rank. No such country. The present has deservedly rewarded Nabokov...
...last November, nine men wearing identical wide-brim hats and ankle-length overcoats, and carrying identical canvas bags, stepped off a plane in Düsseldorf and settled into a hotel in Duisburg in the industrial Ruhr...
...then. She had been planning on it from the age of twelve. As Betty Perske, she announced to a classmate in New York, "I am going to Hollywood." Her high school yearbook lyrically cited her ambitions: "Popular ways that win/ May your dreams of becoming an actress/ Overflow the brim...
...brim overflowed three years later when critics called the 18-year-old fashion model turned actress "an adolescent cougar." "If you want anything, just whistle," she said to Bogie in To Have, and there is hardly a man alive over 40 who didn't wish she'd answer his whistle. Bogie married her (she was his fourth and final wife), and for thousands of nostalgic fans she has been Bogie's babe ever since...