Word: brims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole world, practically, seems to be giving cocktail parties. . . . Mrs. Henry Field had on a fantastic and most becoming hat ... like a parasol with a gardenia under the brim. . . . Mother (Mrs. A. H. Granger) is sailing the end of May to spend the summer in and around Vienna. . . . I've been a little tired this week and the person who is to blame is Miss Margalo Gilmore, owing to the fact that she has so many friends here. We played the piano and sang and in no time it was much too late. . . . Like all my parties, everyone just...
...Morning Iost, as "just dreadful-an ugly, big. heavy, bare, forbidding red brick factory with the straight lines of featureless windows and a tower-like tank-utterly out of harmony with the lovely Avon reach that it does its best to monopolize" (being built on the river's brim...
...base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe and fill it to the brim-" whereupon they all start smoking cigarets. Marching By, in spite of its unconsciously jovial libretto, should get credit for some pleasant melodies by Jean Gilbert...
Philosopher Paul Elmer More (Shelburne Essays), famed "humanist," departed for the University of Glasgow to receive an honorary LL. D. In his cabin baggage were two large crates, full to the brim with modern detective fiction...
...edit his Washington Herald. (He said "No" when she wanted to buy it.) Last week Editrix Patterson, who cannot settle down in Washington but gads about the country for the fun of reporting, hinted that she had espied Professor Albert Ein stein on the Mojave Desert's brim in the nude...