Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churchmen. Advising the male delegates at a diocesian conference of the Methodist Church to grow mustaches as the final gesture of a masculinity truncated by the fell strokes of female fashion, Bishop Collirs Denny remarked, "That's all the women have left us. They cut their hair and wear men's clothes, but they can't wear a mustache. It is your badge of masculinity...
...Neck, drink, occasionally study and all will be well. Whatever you do, Freshmen, don't be original. Be collegiate. Wear the right clothes at the right time. Think as few original thoughts as possible. It's collegiate to bull the prof. into a B when you rated a D. It's collegiate to sleep in lectures, crib in exams, copy themes, and get by. It's collegiate to prefer an Afro-American fox trot to a Beethoven sonata. Ah, by all means let's be collegiate. None of the herd will raise shocked hands and say begone miserable, radical, pink...
Garmented in the magnificent arrangement of silk and tortoise-shell she had bought to wear in her Manhattan debut as Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company, Ganna Walska, soprano wife of Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, knelt in tears at a dress rehearsal while Tenor Franko Tafuro sang "Beautiful Creature...
...year competition, during which every candidate manages at some time each of the teams that wear the green, tests the future manager's versatility; a nomination from the Freshman class, without which no one is allowed to compete, eliminates all those who would not, as managers, be approved by the class...
...daughter of a telegraph operator on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who will make her debut in February with the Metropolitan, was interviewed. Said she: "I don't care for social affairs . . . . I am not interested in sports . . . . I do not like clothes. My sister Florence makes everything I wear . . . ." Soprano Talley is a tightlipped, strapping girl with auburn hair...