Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martha-Bryan Allen, small Southern lady who jumped from the Theatre Guild to a Ziegfeld revue, is the girl in question. Her solemn, facile charm perfected the part and indicated that the U. S. stage has discovered one more young woman who yet may wear the mantle of Mrs. Fiske...
Other wares now chainized: Nuts, groceries, shirts, confections, drugs, cigars, banking, books, orange-juice, optical goods, shoes, breakfast-lunch-and-dinner, radio, blouses, bed and board, knitted wear, hosiery, sporting goods, men's clothing, men's tailoring, automobile accessories, corsets, drygoods, hats, baked goods, enter- tainment...
...Greeks, who are always thinking up something important when not engaged in founding restaurants, have decided at last to restore the Parthenon. It's really a wonder they didn't do it earlier, before some of the pieces were lost. But what with the general wear and tear, the growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against...
Ringmasters in long red coats and stovepipe hats; white stallions more graceful than swans; blear-eyed elephants performing feats of incredible sagacity; chariot racers, trapeze artists, ladies in spangles who wear jeopardy like a flower in their hair, sword- swallowers, snake-charmers, clowns in shreds and patches, fat women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth...
...vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...