Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little creatures began to dance through his ebbing and flowing consciousness. Everything was swaying as though motivated by a giant dish-washing machine. Oh! that dull throbbing around the temples! that clammy, sticky, dry, clogged feeling in his throat and upper tonsils. Would those mittens on his teeth ever wear off? Little pricks and barbed darts of conscience began to torment him as he thought of that ten page paper for Slavic Oology due tomorrow, and on which he had put absolutely no work whatsoever. The professor had been noticing his absences of late, so that would make it doubly...
...such places as Jackson, N. H. and Sun Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians would resent being told what to wear by New Yorkers. Mr. Gimbel intends to handle his Californians gingerly. His personnel will be trained in New York but will be 100% native, when the store opens in April. On the flat roof of the building he helped design will be an open-air beauty shop, which Mr. Gimbel feels...
...game was good from a Harvard viewpoint. In that year the women were as beautiful as ever and besides they were beginning to wear skirts that were not quite so long and from which toes and hints of an ankle were beginning to peek. In Europe there was some sort of a war going on, and people were being killed, and reports from Walter Hines Pages said that things were in pretty nasty shape over there, but in this country everything was all right...
Atlantic City's publicity-hungry Chamber of Commerce last week augmented its fat press clipping albums by staging a football game to which spectators were decorously invited to wear evening clothes. On a full-sized football field in Atlantic City's tremendous Convention Hall, Pennsylvania Military College managed to score a field goal, beat the University of Delaware 3-to-0 in the season's only in door collegiate football game...
...developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly all the girls face the audience. They all are wearing ugly goggle-eyed gas-masks...