Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics reached under their chairs, found the duffel-bags full of ready-to-wear words and opinions that they had tucked there surreptitiously at the first Toscanini concert, drew them out. They dared to comment on "occasional roughness," "lagging tempo," "indiscriminate climaxes and crescendos"; agreed that he had acquitted himself well, commended his "energy," his "enthusiasm," his "excellence." One of them took out "sensational," looked at it earnestly, put it back again...
...Significance. Easy-going foreigners wondered vaguely, "Why all this fuss about the Tyrolese? Aren't they the people who wear those funny little hats?" To such paragons of unconcern an embittered Tyrolese might have answered as follows: "We of the Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among...
...eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love the man, and I shall have none other. I'll never wear the cap of St. Catherine, because old maids are only found in museum cases." Lady Diana made her own wedding dress "But I want to make my own dresses" and wore a veil worn by six generations of Rutland brides...
Wednesday. I know all these women are watching what I wear, and my dresses didn't come today. Insufferable people, dressmakers. Mlle. Lenglen had on an elaborate thing on Monday, which gives her the idea that she's getting ahead of me. . . . She asked me to have tea with her at the Imperial Club at Nice. Her idea of tea was a bottle of champagne. We drank each other's healths. Not a word about tennis. She showed me the centre court where she beat Molla Mallory in 1923. I had on lavender and blue...
...these German students of today, while they still wear the colors that have been adopted as the official flag of Germany, cling politically to the old black-white-red of the Empire. They are mainly haters of Socialists, pacifists, and all internationalists; patriots and "reactionaries." At the annual students' congress held in Berlin in August of the present year, the republican students formed only a trifling majority...