Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a Tebu rides a camel, he takes off his drawers to save wear and tear, and hangs them upon the camel's neck...
...national legislator from Nebraska, a Republican, was seen making his way to Mr. Coolidge's office. (Several Federal posts in Nebraska are vacant.) But he did not wear the pince nez of Senator Howells, railroad investigator. Nor was he Senator Norris, trust buster and Muscle Shoals expert. He was simply a Congressman-the Rev. Melvin Or lando McLaughlin, onetime parson. Before the day was over, politicians near and far learned that the Rev. Mr. McLaughlin had discussed pa tronage with the President. Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already...
...made by men, sold by men, and we women buy any old fool thing they give us without even asking where it came from. The vested interests of the world are tied up in clothes and so is politics. France sends us silken garments and so we won't wear the woolen things that English mills turn out, and recently we had to gather our cloaks together with our hands, because buttons were not manufactured in France...
...Dean, needless to say, is L. M. Karakhan, Bolshevik Ambassador to China, tall, black-bearded and suave, who was once called: "A Bolshevik who can wear white gloves gracefully...
...prize day at school, the boys and girls wear their Sunday-go-to-meetings. They are very polite to one another as they march to their seats...