Word: wearingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patti appears tonight in "La Traviata." It is said she will wear splendid jewels...
What a number of very young men, in very correct costumes, one sees, who wear a studied look of painful indifference...
...best that they should live. How should we know what the last thing in neck-wear was if that blank-faced young man, X -, did not consider it his duty to keep the run of the proper things to support his chin, and serve as a walking show-case to his less ambitious neighbors...
...Middlesex County," by S. A. Drake, we learn, among other things, that "in 1786 a college uniform was prescribed for the students with particulars of form and color and a system of distinctions for classes by means of 'frogs' on the cuffs and around the button-holes. The wearing of this uniform was compulsory, and the regulation continued in force, without modifications, for a number of years." Some of the college rules may be of interest to undergraduates. For example: "No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard, unless it rains, hails or snows, provided...
...institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they lock like 7s sharps, and the silk, either of crimson, blue or black, is only such silk as may be purchased anywhere. The use to which the articles are devoted is to wear them with the silk wound in a knot about them, as ornaments for the buttonhole or cap. Altogether, the custom has only the merit of quaintness, and, even if not more honored in the breach than the observance, might, without loss to anybody, be discontinued...