Word: wearers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Newport to Washington last week hurried Evelyn Walsh McLean, wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
...Wickersham whiskers curled into a grin as their wearer replied...
...comes one that should be read. The Cross Bearers is one to read. Though far from being a record of unrelieved horrors, it shows war's seamiest side, and with open seams. It is a story of a German medical corps. Author Frey. onetime stretcher -bearer, Red -Cross-wearer, knows whereof he writes...
...Coventry charitable Peeping Toms get for their money the following eyeful: 1) One large white horse; 2) One pair of pink tights (blanket-thick); 3) One enormous wig of flowing hair sufficient almost to enshroud the wearer; 4) One bare-faced Coventry girl who sits on the horse, concealed by tights and wig. Last week P. Toms, disgusted by the Coventry swindle, swarmed to St. Albans, drawn by this foursquare, unequivocal guarantee...
Medium tall, erect, precise, a wearer of hard suits, unfashionable collars and old-fashioned spectacles is Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, 52, who was the original agent (1909) for Ford cars in England...