Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Webster, an actor, they have produced a play about a man who discovers the secret of eternal life. This secret is not a matter of potions and glands; it is rather some spiritual understanding of the future so satisfying that the casual troubles of the world do not wear out the body. All this comes out in the last half of the play. The first half is a murder mystery very much like that in any Broadway mystery play, except not so entertaining. The last acts resemble the average Provincetown experiment-variously acted and inclined to grope...
...girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along the sidewalk on obscure errands, babbling cheerfully to themselves some as wear Dundreary whisker; some the plaid breeches of a fine de-siecle "sport," and many of them, particularly on sunny days carry umbrellas...
...Louis Rapaport, representing the National United Women's Wear Association, said that the needle trades want a stable calendar...
...knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...
...were asked to come in uniforms to this luncheon, but we didn't want to, because we have no right to wear them. We are nobody. We are just Americans and only ordinary...