Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foujita cried in her presence: "Oh, Yourki? She's learning how to wear a Japanese costume and how to bow. Never shall I be able to rid myself of that wife of mine there, I guess...
...Hypochondriac Proust used to wear a long nightgown, sweaters, mufflers, stockings, gloves, a nightcap. He lived on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, in a cork-lined attic room. His curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author...
Hats. Still mainly smooth to the head but trending to draped turbans. Small- feather trimmings. Some, adventurous, wear low wide back brims of a salty flavor, reminiscent of fishermen's waterproofs...
...protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament, listen to debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects...
...want to make men's clothes less ugly, less unhealthy, and less cumbersome. The less clothing we wear, the better it is for us. Men wear far too much clothing...