Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wear Old Clothes...
...doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs as: HE MAY BE A CLEPTOMANIAC HE MAY BE AN ADULTERER HE MAY BE A POISONER...
Where Death stalked last week in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, he lacked his usual retinue. Gone from their mortuary parlors were the head morticians. They had entrusted to their apprentices and assistants the silk hats and sleek black coats which they, of all men, are sure to wear on weekdays. They, the master embalmers, had flocked in holiday host to the offices of the Chicago Casket Co. to discuss this whole business of snatching a living from the grave...
...appears they are having the same sort of trouble with their Freshmen at Princeton but it manifests itself in just the opposite way. The Princeton Freshmen won't wear their green caps, they walk on the grass, and refuse to change clothes more than three times a day--and they flaunt their insubordination in the faces of the Sophomores. It is easy to see that the situation has become unbearable, for the Chairman of the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in a letter to the Princetonian complains of Princeton indifference on this all-important question. In spite of the fact that...
...them was Choir Leader Oliver, recently convicted for the whipping of a man who permitted his daughter to wear knickers and ride a bicycle...