Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little pieces of paper, when stuffed into people's pockets or pock etbooks, wear out less quickly than big pieces. Also, little ones can be made into one-dollar bills more cheaply than big ones...
...people of the U. S. wear out 1,500,000 one-dollar bills every day Eighty per cent of the total currency production is one-dollar bills...
...more; but thrifty hunters know that they can often pick up a fair moor for a week or two at relatively trifling cost. Having rented a moor, one must then bring or buy much hunting gear, and, in any case, should wear the hunting costume of the moment. This ensemble, which varies slightly each season, is often topped off with a pert and random feather stuck in the hat. Thus equipped, one asks; "Shall it be dogs or beaters...
...time will come, later, when any Turk can wear any hat he chooses or none!" said Tewfik Rushdi Bey with emphasis "But the fez was a symbol and had to be abolished because it represented a psychological state that was wrong...
Later, as Host Bottomley's spirits kindled, he announced other projects: 1) a lecture tour during which he would wear only prison garb and would denounce British prison methods "from every platform in the land"; 2) the founding of a newspaper, "for which my backers have ready £100,000, gentlemen." 3) publication (which subsequently took place last week in the London Dispatch) of an entire front-page story of his wrongs, plus an entire back page of pictures showing him plump before he went to jail and cadaverous today...