Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great is legal form, however, especially at the present time, when the foundations of order are being attacked even by those who wear the robes of the law, and who do not scruple to lay their hands on the most sacred institutions. It is well to have the functions even of this fundamental institution laid down in black and white. --Boston Evening Transcript...
Harvard students wear shabby hats. Their brogues are well shined; their golf stockings are imported; their knickers and jackets do credit to the fashion plates; their tennis shirts and colorful ties are at once neat and attractive. But by their hats ye shall know them. Faded, dirty, greasy hats; hats discouraged and dissolute, torn, broken, bent, crushed, tipsy; hats that have seen life and have not come back unstained; hats that have been curious about the scum of mankind only to have scum spattered upon them; hats that have lost their ideals, that no longer dream dreams or see visions...
...attention with which they are received, they are liable to postpone their next visit indefinitely, if, as was the case with Mme. Curie, they are forced after a week to cancel all appointments on account of complete exhaustion, and have their hands shaken so much that they must wear them in slings...
...Yale Student Council has recently ruled that only Seniors who are entitled to wear a "Y" will be appointed cheer leaders...
With a personnel of fifty men, the University Band will make its initial appearance today by marching in uniform to the University-Indiana football game at Soldiers Field. The men will wear crimson sweaters, white sailor hats, and white flannel trousers. Starting from University Hall at 2 o'clock the aggregation of musicians will march down Boylston street to the Stadium, and will play football songs and marches before the game and between halves...