Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were married, the death of Albert, Prince of Wales (now commonly referred to as the Duke of Clarence), elevated his younger brother George from the post of Commander of H. M. S. Melampus to the style of heir to the British throne. Descending from their carriage, the Imperial pair entered the State Robing Room of the Houses of Parliament...
...means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World and the Herald Tribune...
...could not possibly have been caused by their breakfast eggs. They were thinking again of the schoolboy?of how he says, "Yes, I'm sorry, teacher. Naw, teacher, I'll never do it again," while at that very moment he is displaying, to the tittering class behind him, a pair of crossed fingers. "Is that," the friends of the Tribune wanted to know, "an apology...
...valedictory leader, the outgoing President of the Lampoon makes his successor beir to an "empty paste pot and a pair of shears," obviously the worn instrumeats with which a large proportion of the wit and humor of the present number was acquired, for, with the possible exception of the story which begins with the two newlyweds in a Pullamn and later contains references to oranges, there is hardly an antique and hoary wheeze which does not stage a comeback somewhere between the "Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen...
...their order to the last extremes. Despatches carried the following details: "The Abbé was set upon, in the vestry of his church by a crowd of men and women carrying pepper pots and lengths of knotted rope. . . . They threw pepper in his eyes, stripped him as naked as a pair of tongs and bound him to the vestry table...