Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator from Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand for a ban on politics in the WPA, thus resulted in the Hatch Act. Till next August's primary, Kentucky's Happy Man may wear the toga, if not the dignity, of a U. S. Senator...
...head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy wives and have to stay put while their husbands move to new locations...
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, Lord Somers, Deputy Chief Scout of Britain's Boy Scouts, issued a war order to all scouts to wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...
...When four years old, the future Premier lost the use of his left eye when his clumsy nurse, thinking she was administering eye drops, poured acid into it, caused him to wear an opaque monocle for most of his life...
...even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...