Word: brims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially liked the ducky little names for his creations. We have in our wardrobe a gay little number which we affectionately call "Four-Thirty a.m." Pale grey-green in color, it has a cap to match with a tricky brim which can be worn in a number of ways. The brim has stitching which goes around and around and around. What a great delight it would be to have Adrian model it for us some...
...country in whatever capacity I am best suited and at present that is as second mate aboard this oil tanker. But, if some of these stupid politicians think that it is my duty to risk my life in order to fill the tanks of pleasure cars to the brim, they will have another think coming. I believe that they will soon find out that there are quite a few more seamen who feel this...
...With Lake shipping space needed to tote some 90,000,000 tons of iron ore, there is slight chance of duplicating last year's 11,000,000-ton grain shipment on the Lakes. Eastern seaboard elevators are brim full of wheat anyway, with no ships to carry it overseas...
Designers of women's clothes, always eager to ride a trend, worked their imaginations overtime. Sally Victor created a fireproof glass-and-asbestos hat, padded inside against cold and bumps, with a flashlight in the brim. Warborn was a handbag containing a bottle of luminous paint and a flap on which messages could be written...
...cattle country, grass spread thick and tall over the grazing lands. Ponds and wells, for the first time in years, were filled to the brim. Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming were blanketed with fields of wild flowers. Cactus blossoms ranged over the desert, turning the dun earth blue and yellow and orange. On the flanks of Colorado's mountains, snow reached farther down than the oldest citizen could remember. Snow-fed streams would run full this summer...