Word: wore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savage body-blocking and fast passes of the Bruin offense wore down the Harvard defense which couldn't clear the ball from...
...noted that Hemingway never wore underwear and seldom bathed in water; he preferred sponge baths with rubbing alcohol. Hotch listened patiently when Papa told tales about his sex life, some of them fanciful. Hemingway claimed, for example, that he had once shacked up with Mata Hari (obviously untrue, since 41-year-old Mata Hari was executed in 1917, a year before Ernest, then 18, got to Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true...
Papa had a bad temper, says Hotch. When he drank, he sometimes grew quarrelsome and querulous with his fourth wife, "Miss Mary," whom he adored and once described as "my pocket Rubens." He slyly made sport of pestering strangers by extravagantly praising something they wore. He was also a hypochondriac, forever lugging around samples of his urine. He was convinced that he had skin cancer (his own diagnosis), and grew his beard to cover the white scaling on his face...
...that hold bills!" winced the Duchess of Windsor, 69. She does, and so on a visit to Manhattan, Her Grace, who was enshrined in the Fashion Hall of Fame seven years ago, reported that she's been skimping on the haute couture lately. "That navy blue coat I wore the other day is two years old," she sighed. "When my maid packed my bags, she said, 'Madame, some of these evening dresses have gone to Palm Beach with you three times.' I'm hoping nobody will remember...
...Bellevue for smoking cigarettes. In 1905 the U.S. had more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher, who in the 19th century endorsed numerous products, including soap, sewing machines and trusses. Once, nice girls wore black silk mittens to breakfast, and gentlemen kept their hats on indoors. And, in polite company, gentlemen referred to chickens as boy-birds and girl-birds, and never used the word peacock...