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Word: paired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadwayfarer, to be an exploiter of monstrosity. Yet such is part of his profession. The Hilton twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for Loew's Vaudeville Circuit turned his talents on another female pair, the Gibb twins, Mary and Margaret, joined since birth and recent members of a Coney Island freak museum. Very discreetly, he let it be known in newspaper offices that one of them was in love and that they would therefore submit to a separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Press Agentry | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...itself or to prepare to defend itself as much as it may please. "Big Navy" men were relieved. British newspapers expressed more hotly than ever their belief that the treaty was conceived in partisan politics and baptised with U. S. hypocrisy. ¶Mrs. Coolidge shopped in Superior for a pair of bedroom slippers. One of her red ones had been chewed up by Rob Roy.* That old collie had inadvertently been left in the Brule bedroom while the Coolidge family watched a cinema on the dining room porch. Mrs. Coolidge, kind, told reporters how she had later caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Legend | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Casino's colorful clientele assembled to separate the pair. Ireful Charles A. Levine, famed passenger, was led away by his bejeweled protégé Miss Mabel Boll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boulevardier | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short of insulting to a little wooden ship who had made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told him to put his boat on a starting line. They would race from Cincinnati upstream to New Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Packets | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Orphan into General. To trace the life circle which began and ended at Huatabampo would strain an epic pair of compasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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