Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competitors are expected to wear white flannel trousers and sweaters, preferably white. Entrance to the Stadium for those in the competition will be through the coaches and players' gate in the wooden stands...
...imagine what a furor this news will cause in the "What the Well-Dressed Man Will Wear" columns in Vanity Fair and theatre programs. Having missed being the heralds of a new age, Cholly Knickerbocker and Beaunash will probably commit suicide. It may soon become the fashion for engaged Columbia couples to exchange compacts at Christmas, perfectly assured that their presents will satisfy; and, beyond doubt, everyone will be rejoiced to see some saint in the compacts which haberdashers have always had on display along with perfume sprays and manicure sets...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...
...whole the play was disappointing. The vogue of Mr. Arlen has thinned with the increasing opinion that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...
...comes back to New York the Mirror will renew its campaign to get him away." With this valedictory, the Mirror published a picture of a small brunette, "winsome little Virginia Frank," and credited her with having spurned the wealthy slayer's suit. " 'Let other girls wear his jewelry,' she said...