Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While undergraduates steeped themselves in course work supposedly completed before Christmas vacation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took tea on the first Tuesday of the new year and legislated the present time-honored, time-worn course numbering system out of existence...
...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted...
...waited. The royal brass band struck up the Song of the King. In walked an old gentleman as precariously thin as a Nordic Don Quixote. He bowed right & left, then took his seat on the ermine-draped throne, beside a taboret bearing the crown which he had never actually worn (he disapproves of elaborate ceremonies). Then Gustaf V, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same speech 40 times before, and 40 times his subjects had been glad to hear...
Bernadotte's great-grandson, Gustaf, has worn galoshes throughout his reign, and has been bothered by neither colds nor revolutions. As added health measures, he has taken annual junkets to the Riviera, stuck to tennis, Nobel Prize speeches, and other strictly constitutional exercises. One of his most independent and controversial achievements was the discovery in a Paris cafe, in 1934, of Hildegarde, the "French" chanteuse from Milwaukee. He has been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King...
...after another the gleaming staff cars and Volkswagen rolled up to the dirty, grey, four-story building in Frankfurt. Upstairs on the top floor, across the worn leather top of a huge, oval table, the commanders of the U.S. and British occupation zones faced Western Germany's leading political figures. Then came the long-expected announcement...