Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishmen-they address it to the London Times. The same urge comes to Americans-they send it to TIME. But do you have to print letters like that of Mary Elizabeth Robinn? We gravely suspect Miss Robinn of being one of that shining galaxy of women who wear spectacles, carry Boston bags and hold degrees from at least three universities. Or maybe-this is mere conjecture, but we feel it may hit the mark-she is still smarting from being one of those American girls whom the Prince couldn't dance with because of an overcrowded dance program...
...actually pays in dollars and cents to keep picked up, but in any event we can afford and actually do afford to do some things not because they pay directly but just because to do so gives us a certain worth while feeling of satisfaction. That is why men wear collars, have their hair cut and shave; and also why girls bob their hair, powder their noses-not to go further into details...
Curious tots vexed their parents by piping: "How can you tell one kind of a Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that the Grenadier Guards wear a small white plume in the bearskin, the Coldstream Guards a red plume, the Scots no plume and the Irish a blue-green, (not "emerald") plume. To further distinguish the Guards, the buttons on their coats are spaced in a different manner for each regiment...
...fashion in men's wear was thereby established. The mark of the businessman, the sign of his dignity, had been the stiff collar. Now the semisoft collar took its place on half the necks of the U. S. It was comfortable, and wives could launder it themselves...
...miles (100 kilometres) in 9 hrs. 37 min. Mexican sportsmen asked to have the record accepted as official, petitioned for a 100-kilometre race in the next Olympic games. Newspapermen sought out Zafiro and San Miguel. "We are strong," they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits. We chew peyote,3 and on feasts we drink pinole.4...