Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news, not for the purpose of enabling your readers to wear the latest. I do not have the time to read fashion magazines. That is the very reason why I expect TIME to keep me informed. Report whenever there is anything to report. Whether that is after an interval of six months or six weeks or six days, neither...
...have better than one of every three living. Last year at Des Moines we had two delegates from Manila, and one from one of our two camps in China. This time we had none. Why should we not stick our chests out at times and be proud to wear the bronze button, which, by the way, is made from metal taken from the Old U. S. S. Maine. which started the whole dam thing. AUSTIN C. ROWELL...
...Cross was originally a catcher. Shifted to third, he took his mitt with him. With this hamlike implement he was able to stop so many balls that the rule makers made a rule: "The catcher or the first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn...
...sparkling jumble of bracelets, brooches, silver chains, earrings and intricate pendants, spied a shiny ring, forged from the golden dust of the Black Hills. She turned to John Coolidge, said: "How would you like to have one of these?" John Coolidge was reported to have said: "I don't wear rings, thank...
...however, the' brawny sons of Albert Devormer, famed catcher for the New York Giants. They, Earl, 8, and Oral, 9, are accustomed to gather about them their small and noisy cronies, to snarl about who has "next licks" in the middle of St. Nicholas Avenue. Usually, because they wear their father's prestige as well as his old mitts, their snarls are effective. Last week, when Policeman Harry Gallagher told them to stop playing, their snarls ceased to be effective. Hence Devormer pere was stung into action. Bursting into the midst of the childish argument the- catcher seized...