Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, Master Usni was wearing the national lower garment of the Thai people, a panung. It is worn by both men and women and is a piece of silk or other material about one by three yards. It is put on in such a manner that it does somewhat resemble trousers. But plus fours! No, TIME...
...super-syncopated version of De Camptown Races, followed by Liebestraum in rumba time. Kate Smith's big new number was There I Go, new some months ago. Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade was a parade of the only "hits" it was allowed to play-the well-worn There I Go, So You're The One, Frenesi, seven others. These had been frantically cooked up in the past months by the big broadcasters' Broadcast Music, Inc. to broadcast after their contract with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers expired...
...stale, starved life, and it was not improved for Clory when she lost her son and daughter in an epidemic. By the time Abijah got back she was worn and grieved enough to come pretty close to what he wanted in a wife, and to think better of him than she had. But she never quite gave up the idea of getting to less cruel country, or of leaving him altogether...
Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...
...reform is expected to be somewhat more successful than its predecessor. At least, it will probably receive the whole-hearted support of students who have spent hours thumbing through the well-worn pages in an effort to locate a missing course or professor...