Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first contingent of U. S. visitors to the Coronation, prominent among them James Watson Gerard of the official U. S. delegation. The U. S. press, feeling knee breeches unmanly except for sliding bases or playing golf, was in a characteristic, hayseedy dither over whether Special Envoy Gerard would wear court dress. Mr. Gerard, Wartime Minister to Germany, opined that he would...
...host dined in pajamas, I would wear pajamas. On this occasion my host will wear court dress, and I will wear court dress...
...Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative: "I think I'll wear pink undies...
...expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically...
...Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard as he drives his staff, appearing frequently at his office at 5 a. m., having breakfast sent in, working through to suppertime. Prone to establish rigorous routine, he wears black ties year round, blue suits winters, white linen summers. Another personal idiosyncrasy: he hates suspenders, ridicules staffmen who wear them, calls them "sissy." Accustomed to bossing his own business, he champions local causes; alienated the advertising of a Nashville store by exposing its sale of shoddy blankets to flood sufferers...