Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stream-crosser Stimson was born in Manhattan in 1867, is a graduate of Yale (1888) and Harvard Law School, is entitled to wear the Phi Beta Kappa key. He was unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New York (1910), was Secretary of War under President Taft (1911-1913). As Colonel of the 31st Field Artillery he saw World War service in France...
...went a step further with the marriage of the daughter of the labor leader, J. H. Thomas, which was a test of the Labor Party. They met it magnificently. The editor of "Tailor and Cutter" proclaimed that the guests at the wedding were sartorially unassailable. Not only did they wear coats and neckties, they wore cutaways and cravais. The editor was tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held...
Behind the bat Henry Chauncey '27, veteran receiver and star of Coach Horween's eleven last fall will wear his mask and mitt. In addition to his ability as a signal-caller Chauncey swings a powerful bat from the port side of the plate...
...Queen Mayme of Monomania. E. deS Melcher '28 had the job of showing the audience how a Sixteenth Century Red Riding Hood got her pearls. It's impossible to say anything about Melcher; you've got to see him to appreciate his antics, and here's some friendly advice--wear a surcingle to keep yourself from falling to pieces with laughter. That lady could show most of these modern gold diggers a whole lot about hydraulic mining...
...Senor Miguel Cinchaga Tocornal stomach. Where is romance, where color? Does all womankind wear "Bar is creations" and display its ears? Is all mankind standardized into that deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...