Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the lovely, verdant park of Cotroceni, at Bucharest, a pair of steel rails curve in and up to the Palace of Dowager Queen Marie. When a royal train draws nigh it can chuff conveniently into a trig, small station only a few score yards from the palace door. Last week came the train of Her Majesty Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, daughter of Marie of Rumania...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...
...carried on by men in all three classes of the Law School. In the first year, the students are organized into clubs of about eight men each. During the first year in the Law School, cases are argued among members of the same club, and later club members pair off and take on the representatives of a rival club in interclub arguments, the results of which have just been announced...
...first forward line, composed of John Tudor '29, Captain J. P. Chase '28, and F. R. Giddens '29 proved its worth as mighty scoring unit. The Bigelow brothers in the defense line of the second six which Coach Stubbs will throw on the ice, have developed into a pair of shifty scoring threats, liable to dash down the ice to pierce the opposing defense at any moment...
Again Col. Lindbergh flew where never man has flown before him. Over the jagged barrier of Andes from Bogota he soared upward to the east. Fogs blotted his landmarks. Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...