Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would think of calling a child a hypocrite because he dresses up as a cowboy or a policeman. Other peoples are, in other respects, just as childlike and naïve in their psychology as the Americans are about Prohibition. For example, consider the problem of why Englishmen wear silk hats. (They still do.) It is apparent to the meanest intelligence that a silk hat, considered as a hat, is a poor and ridiculous thing. It is uncomfortable, it is ugly, it is easily damaged by the elements against which it is supposed to be a protection. Why then...
...whole, it would be advisable to procure two or three suits, besides extra trousers, of varied styles. The coloring should be warm. Bright reds, blues, oranges, and yellows give a genial effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers...
...service. But spirit can accomplish little without the flesh of genuine support. It must be granted that the ordinary undergraduate feels a certain desire to escape the memories of over-assiduous home-town charities and clubs, and that the less worthy, as well as the more worthy of these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much of the innate indifference of the under graduate toward it. The conference will show that the organization...
...play golf where I won't have to wear a sweater," was the reason announced by President-Reject Smith for his southern vacation, which began last week. He emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
Every man must wear shoes, every woman, boy, girl...