Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I was younger, less secure and less repulsive," confided Britain's best-selling Poet John Betjeman, 55, to Associated Press Confessor Eddy Gilmore, "I used to wear modern things. But now I look at the best-dressed men and wear exactly the opposite." So crowing, the latter-day Victorian and crusading architectural antiquarian modeled the glory of his ragbag wardrobe: a morning suit originally made for U.S. Novelist Henry James -who died in, London 45 years ago. "It's wonderful to wear his clothes." beamed Fellow Author Betjeman. "I didn't need a single alteration...
...bestselling items in the store. A 1958 French refrigerator sold for $187. Today the same French company, under pressure from German competition, sells a larger and better refrigerator for only $120. "Before 1958, no French firm would dream of putting out a cheap, well-designed, ready-to-wear range of women's clothes," says Galeries Lafayette Chief Buyer Jean d'Allens. "Now several are selling women's skirts for as little as $10, and selling them all over the Common Market...
...newly hired pressagent, Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, 27, supposedly betook herself to Manhattan's Bowery where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...
...discussed the work of the psychiatric division of the University Health Services, at which point one freshman ended the discussion by asking ominously, "If about 500 freshmen walked in with anxiety and depression and all that and you found out that the root of their trouble was having to wear coats and ties in the Union...
...Chairman Mende is one of its strongest advocates for retention of his country's present ties with the West. In strategic matters, his current difference with NATO concerns the U.S. helmets worn by German troops. As an ex-soldier and a nationalist, Erich Mende thinks German boys should wear old-style German steel helmets. He may yet be in a position to see that they get them...