Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hatters of that time took up the notion, erected gongs outside their stores, and established the fifteenth as the date when no he-man would continue to wear his straw...
...Deutsch, president of both the Sonora and Acoustics Products companies and promoter of Religious Film Trust, last week promised: "With the exception of the leading characters, native hordes and tribes will be employed and will wear their native garb, which has undergone no change in thousands of years." He was in error. Although Arabians still wear no underwear under their burnooses, they now wear socks and Boston garters...
...Dine, author of The Benson Murder Case, The "Canary" Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, is not S. S. Van Dine. But he does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went...
...shell ripped out part of his right thigh; a remarkable operation of bone grafting proved effective; after five months he left the hospital. Official dispatches cited him as an officer with "vim ... initiative ... intimate knowledge ... smart demeanor." He was twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal of the British Empire, wears the Croix de Guerre with Palms, of France, the Cross of St. George, of Russia. Demobilized in 1919, he was a ranking Colonel and temporary Brigadier General. At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker in the New York department stores...
Women's Wear. To the basements and second floors of Schulte-United 5? to $1 stores, there came, last week, cloaks, suits, dresses and millinery of Miller, Inc. Acquiring the Miller stores, the Schulte-United chain planned reorganization, retailing of women's wear through its 1,000 units...