Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed to wear...
Frenchmen who invite Americans to wear their hats backwards...
...gallant Lieutenant, the Duchess will wear huntsman's green and carry a bugle. She is also authorized to hunt wolves all over France and can organize boar and other hunts in the State forests...
...frauds charged, exclaimed : " I don't care about private collectors. Modern work or a copy of the ancient piece may be more interesting or more beautiful than the authentic ancient one, and if the private collector wants such pieces it is his privilege. I may like to wear my hat backward; that is my privilege. What I object to is that future American artists should have put before them false representations of our art. The museum is sacred." As for the man who committed the supposed frauds: " That man would put arms on the Venus de Milo...
...Yale men--they are, on the whole, well dressed. They are noted in winter-time for their large, Brown fur coats, brown hats, and unbuckled goloshes. At week-ends they appear in considerable numbers with brown suit-cases, headed to or from New York. In the Spring the seniors wear no hats, smoke shiny Dunhill pipes, and usually keep their dark suits faultlessly pressed. But, on the other hand, one sees a large number of indistinguishable individuals, whose shoes are not shined, who do not own fur coats, and who carry rather more books under their arms than their more...