Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WASHINGTON: By decision of the Attorney General it is legal for women to wear trousers where and when they please...
...members?the last surviving Irish Nationalist?who wear their hats in the House and use the snuff provided by the sergeant-at-arms...
...rent law which fixes rent at a twentieth to a fiftieth, of the normal figure has taken hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the house owners." About the people: " How do they live? The petty officials of the Government, who receive $10 a month; the physicians who wear themselves out attending patients who can never pay; the writer who receives royalties of $50 for a book, which represented a year of research; the officer's widow, who receives a pension of a few cents a month; the artist obliged to sell a fine etching for half a dollar...
...Women wearing trousers " when and where they please." Surely there is only one proper place for anybody to wear trousers...
...conclusion: " The man who attempts to do sensational things entirely out of his sphere and beyond his power will, in time, wear down the public's confidence in his judgment. Henry Ford is not so widely admired as he once was. Grant that a man is sincere in trying to do what he is not fitted to do, that will not prevent men mingling pity with their admiration. And pity, when too frequently aroused, is in danger of turning into a mild contempt...