Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arms. Chiang is the first modern generalissimo to advance with a veritable army of spies and propaganda agents proceeding his military columns months beforehand, filtering into the enemy camp, and persuading enemy soldiers to desert to the banner of "China for the Chinese." Withal, though he is careful to wear no distinguishing mark on his uniform, Chiang is a conqueror of dominating mien, not a comradely Bolshevik backslapper. He has publicly disavowed Bolshevism; and he is much more dangerous to the Great Powers than if he were a Bolshevik. His purpose is to accomplish, by any means (including Bolshevism where...
...interesting contribution to contemporary American is the fact that opera stars can, and according to the Saturday Evening Post do, wear waists made out of the red woolen plaid lining of their Father's twenty year old overcoats. At least such is the accomplishment of Miss Marion Talley, the homespun diva, who is now pouring forth extensive memoirs...
...conservative painting is that by Juan Oliver. In it are gentlewomen and gentlemen grouped about a grand piano in quiet poise. The men, oddly, wear clothes...
...What flower (not a gardenia or a lily-of-valley) may a high-grade bridegroom wear in buttonhole...
...above that sort of thing) turns savagely on this institution and says that Harvard men are responsible for the way Radcliffe girls, dress--well, then, things, as Red Grange used to remark, have come to a pretty pass. Not but that the young ladies at Radcliffe don't wear fetching rigs--ah no, no indeed. There are few more charming sights than to see them flooding into the Cooperative at dusk, trim in their little middies and albeit laughing gaily and swinging their green bags over their shouldrs in wanton manner. But the Post's Fashion Editor or Editress...