Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold dawn of March 4, 1897, a freight train drew into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said...
Three concerns which have been notably successful in this field and meet all of these tests are: The Fuller Brush Company, The Real Silk Hosiery Company, and the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, the latter manufacturers and distributors of "Wear Ever." A number of men have gone with these companies each summer and have been successful. These companies will again this summer be looking...
...hardy, mentally alert subscribers want this crutch? Does Subscriber Kastner shoot squirrels with a shotgun? Does he, hale and hearty, insist on eating only predigested foods? Does he wear water-wings when swimming? Does he use a bushel basket for a baseball glove...
...parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief of police should be arrested for assult and battery. There is an obvious lesson there for all peace officers who must deal with strikers...
...friends will no longer be turned by this new armor. He can fall back upon figures for the profession--law, medicine, education, even business, then upon literature, although best not in the presence of graduates of Yale. And so on, but the newness of his defence will rapidly wear away before the pertinacity of the William and Mary gag and the story of the Harvard man on the crew who rowed number three and knew every man in the boat except number six and the stroke...