Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived in Venice to find the streets flooded. It was all wet all right. The Swiss? They wear velvet B. V. Ds. Not only the mountains are high in that country, the hotel rates ditto. No wonder people won't fight those guys, they're gallant chargers...
...evening of amiable conversation; a genially drunken friend of the family; a correct, quiet, cordial entertainment is the sum. Madge Kennedy plays prettily; the father-in-law is Gilbert Emery, practically the only U. S. actor who can wear a double breasted suit as though he owned it. Critics are generously delighted with Paris Bound. The title refers to the widening quota of comfortable Americans to whom the sea of matrimony is simply a broad Atlantic with French divorce courts at the voyage...
...haven't a thing to wear...
...which he related that the reason the Declaration of Independence was accepted was not because the committee liked it all so well, but because the hall where they were assembled was opposite a stable, and the delegates, being elegant gentlemen attired in long silk stockings just like those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have to say is 'God bless the gadflies.'?Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment just after Hodolph Krauswitz, the Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such...