Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are several methods of looking at the new mayor, the best of which is through a pair of violently rose colored glasses. He is not guileless nor is he innocent of the devious ways of the Loop. One might say of him as has been said of Jack London--he was a man, thus leaving gradations of value quite unnoticed. At any rate he has managed to gather enough votes to come through the winner. Congratulations are in order for him, for the Illinois underworld--in fact for everybody but the people of Chicago...
...next frame. The two point total appeared sufficient to hold off the first team, until a brace of tallies was pushed over in the eighth. After holding the second scoreless for the first half of the ninth, the team A players sewed up the game with another pair of counters...
...Laporte City, Iowa, one Albert Cole, cobbler-music teacher, dyed a pair of his own oxfords with an analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts...
...Comstock's fury. He was called "an incorporated conscience," "an ogre to innocent girls." George Bernard Shaw said: "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States." He must, though, have had some friends, for he notes, "For Christmas I received a pair of slippers, a mustache cup and saucer and a gold toothpick...
...Morgan (TIME, March 7), swept through to the finals in the amateur doubles championship at the Queen's Club, London. Mr. Pell again gave evidence of being the finest individual player extant; the British finalists, Messrs. Kempwelch and Cambridge centred their attack upon Mr. Morgan; the U. S. pair lost...