Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded (1845), Buchanan was made Superintendent. A stern disciplinarian, he once unbent so far as to forward the following application from 38 cadets to the Secretary of the Navy: "Sir-We the undersigned midshipmen of the Naval School at Annapolis respectfully request permission to wear our beards, with the exception of that portion of it upon the upper...
...Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...through the generosity of parents and alumni, Mr. O had Pomfret fitted out as became a Good Eastern School. A $135,000 Romanesque chapel, the gift of Trustee E. Walter Clark, was brought stone by stone, slate by slate from England. In keeping, Mr. O made his 140 boys wear starched white collars when they went within to worship...
...wear ratcatcher* to an opening meet or scarlet on a cub-hunting morning...