Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year we were at the bottom of the Big Three cellar and it's going to be hard work getting out this year. At present the prospects are not as good as they were in 1925. I don't think the undergraduate body wants to stand for another pair of scores such as 25 to 15 and 18 to 4 at the hands of Yale...
...under the impression the Court resides at the late Mr. Carnegie's far more sumptuous Peace Palace. The tastes of the Prince Consort (Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin) are likewise circumscribed within the same prudent limits. Hence, when a large appropriation was recently placed at the disposal of the royal pair to be expended on the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, the foreign diplomats at The Hague speculated whimsically upon the form which this "celebration" would take...
...Manhattan drawing room bloomed with soft red light. A company of people, stained with the same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper rippled over the red room and vanished in diminishing circles of sound, as if a crumb had been dropped into a pool of claret...
...Albee, vaudeville manager, bought a pair of console tables...
...bottom to his purse. Was it truly the King's gold that he was spending? Dealers thought not, but the rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been an international polo match. But now the excitement had cooled a little. Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents...