Word: brims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one afternoon last week, Minister de Kauffmann, dapper as usual in his grey suit and roll-brim black hat, hurried into the State Department. Cordell Hull was waiting for him. Waiting also was the agreement that Minister de Kauffmann had negotiated, without the knowledge and against the will of his Nazi-dominated Government at home. Pale and unsmiling, he signed; "Judge" Hull, scowling, affixed his nose glasses and signed after him. By the agreement's terms...
...Case of the Black Parrot" is all about this clever reporter who solves all sorts of things and makes the police look silly. His stooge-cameraman wears the brim of his hat up, and is just bubbling over with wisecracks...
...only one of the 16 million human organisms who happened to be thrown by the progeniting hands of God into these "seven thousand emeralds" that decorate the western brim of the greatest oceanic basin. Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes...
...Georgia Island in the subAntarctic, the museum's curator of oceanic birds was puzzled because he almost never came across any dead Johnny penguins. The mystery was solved one day when he climbed a long hill and found a small, transparent lake made of snow water. Around its brim stood a number of sad, sickly-looking Johnny penguins. Now & then one of them would plop into the lake, never to emerge. Looking down into the clear water, the curator saw "on the cold blue bottom, with their flippers outstretched . . . hundreds, possibly thousands of dead Johnny penguins. . . . Most of them...
...Cartoonist Percy Crosby (Skippy) went U. S. patent No. 2,197,174 for a helmet designed to prevent brain concussions. Shaped like a Tyrolean yodeler's hat, its crown rests on powerful springs which are attached to the brim. How it works: bullet comes, crown gives, bullet is deflected, crown snaps back, war goes...