Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eagerly she continued: "The lack of actors who can play parts of gentlemen has crippled scores of plays. It is a deplorable fact that managers frequently have to send to England for men who can merely wear clothes and appear like gentlemen. Theatres are simply falling over themselves to get contracts for the two or three men in New York who can take these parts, and yet college men totally overlook the stage as a road to wealth and fame. I imagine they do so because it 'isn't done', but it is done in England and there...
...Caraway stuck his hands into his customary pockets and, eyeing the tailored vestments of his opponent, drawled: "Well, the farmers I knew didn't wear long-tailed coats and white vests...
...might elect to have an English King and be part of a dual mon- archy. Or she might ask one of the English princes to renounce his allegiance and be her King. Or even some lad of the name of O'Brien or O'Neill might wear the Irish crown. "The Irish King might even be a Spaniard. There is the Duke of Tetuan, for instance. He is The O'Neill, a descendant of the great O'Neill who fled to the Continent with the flight of the Wild Geese,* if you will recall your history...
...Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every badge, to escape the suspicion of favoritism, will read: "Admit one Good only on the date punched...
...rumored that members of foreign legations have been instructed to lay aside admiral's hats for this occasion and wear stocking caps. Report goes that the President will appear in simple semi-formal dress of close-fitting black tights, safely suspended by white silk suspenders. He will ride in the procession seated comfortably on top of a have wagon with pitchfork in one hand and brown derby in the other. In short, everything is to be as simple as possible...