Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street tailor; price, $65. Today his suits are of a type for which from $125 to $140 is standard price. He usually choses suits of blue or grey; has one brown suit, purchased at Mrs. Coolidge's suggestion that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third finger). No fop, the President disturbed the White House valet by putting...
...want to wear out, not rust...
...touched to white-hot, molten steel, bursts into flame. Last week in Cleveland the molten metal poured on shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into mounds...
...deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister to them, as to the vast majority of their patients, is now-except...
...shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After...