Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade, but are now transformed. They wear gay colors and spangles. They mince and prance and stick out their bosoms. The acrobats look flatfooted, the equestrians are bowlegged, the clowns act drunk. It is, of course, the circus, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus- never changing, except to become, as Press Agent Dexter Fellowes must repeat...
...decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
Though silk raising is one of the most important industries of Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal...
...known that next year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder for vodka...
...least of the visitors' charms was their unpretentiousness. The French do not spend much on their musical comedies. It is a relief to sit through an evening without being asked to watch armies of chorus ladies parade past in what the best dressed woman will not wear. After a week of Trois Jeunes Filles, Producer Gauvin, versatile, shifted his company to Ta Bouche, a Paris...