Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them to wear epaulets, but not belligerent enough to ruffle their hair. One of the playwrights who devised their handsome parades is A. E. Thomas. Actor Faversham and Playwright Thomas are now responsible for this play about a King who retained his throne through the clever beneficence of a U. S. dowager. Its strategems...
...American girls seem much the same as British girls except that they wear their clothes at different angles...
...Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
...usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats were reviewed on the south lawn. Followed a luncheon, with the Secretaries of State and the Navy present. Then, after an elapsed time of 1 hr. 40 min., back in the executive offices appeared the sack-suited president...
...infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other...