Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dakers was by way of being a poet; Mrs. Dakers, years before, something of a Shakespearean actress. And so it happened that their adolescent boys were made to wear painfully purple velvet costumes at their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold...
Fashions are funny things. This year it is the rage to wear light tan sport coats. Personally we wish someone would undertake to get the boys out of the trench coats by Christmas...
Serious minded people might dig up several quotations like the well-known one of Professor Marquand to the effect that the Harvard Stadium is architecture, that of his own university, very satisfactory engineering. Scientists might be called in to measure the wear and tear of the last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals...
Medicine knows no full picture of senescence. It knows many details?what diseases are peculiar to the age, how young ailments cause old crotchets, how various body parts wear out, how the mind grows dull. Little more detail did the New York conference bring out. Of a score papers only three or four dealt with the hygiene of old age. Practically all the others dealt with specific diseases. Yet the meeting was useful in collecting scattered knowledge and in focusing medical attention...
Such were the questions which sophisticated Europeans discussed last week. For from Vienna came a report that the Bulgarian Government had decided that teachers should no longer dress at will, but should, instead, wear uniforms. But, also, European sophisticates, knowing how many unfounded rumors start in Vienna, gave only moderate credence to the story...