Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weighs 50 pounds and the shackles are fastened almost rigidly by bending them over the bar with a hammer. The weight is so great that those who wear the device attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...
...attracted even more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming a peer. It made him feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black cocked hat sat strangely above...
...regular Italian, as he boasts, Rico was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He drank only milk. He gave diamonds for wear not to his women but to himself. Small and pale, he was a man bound to rise because he conducted his business with only his own future in constant view. He wanted some day to have wealth equal to that of the Big Boy, a Chicago politician who protected gangsters from the legal consequences of any crime but murder...
WHEN MISS BRAZIL APPEARS STAGE TONIGHT [the first wire from Galveston read] WILL WEAR SEVERE BLACK CHIFFON GOWN ON PINK SLIP WITH GARLAND ROSES RUNNING DIAGONALLY ACROSS BREAST STOP NO HEAD DRESS FLESH COLORED HOSE BLACK SHOES ALSO DIAMOND NECKLACE AND DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE BROOCH CENTER CHEST...