Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time James Walsh knew what he wanted to do most. He wanted to be an altar boy, and wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
Wells, famed British novelist; at Dunmow, England; of cancer. Dying a few hours before the marriage of her younger son Richard, she requested that the ceremony be performed and that no one wear mourning at her funeral...
...Harvard and Holy Cross teams on the gridiron. The chief question in the minds of football experts is this: Has Holy Cross established a counter tradition of victory, similar to that consistently upheld by Harvard teams a few years back, which it will take another long struggle to wear down, or are the Holy Cross successes of the past two years merely a temporary interruption in the succession of Harvard wins...
...second, then to third, and in some makes, even into a fourth forward speed. Before they will yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately. In addition to causing heavy wear on the parts, all this diddling is a great nuisance to the driver, who in a Utopian state of locomotion would be concerned with only two things: 1) to make the car go at desired speed, 2) to make the car stop when necessary. What the world needs, in short...
...even a single entry in the great Hollywood sweepstakes, Harvard has made a belated effort to hide her shame by completing a moving picture enterprise of her own. There may not be a single one of the ten thousand men of Harvard who knows how to use mascara or wear polo shirts open at the throat but, impossible as it may seem, there are demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure immediate showing in the Harvard Clubs...