Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Company has been radically changed. Gone are Mr. Walter Gilbert and Miss Ann Mason, versatile leading pair of last season. In their places are Mr. Herbert Heyes and Miss Kay Hammond, and if last night's performance is any criterion, the change is decidedly not for the worse. If Mr. Heyes is as pleasing in straight roles as he was Monday night as the young man about town--a much abused epithet--who misjudges his alcoholic capacity, Mr. Gilbert's absence will not be noticed. Miss Hammond, too, was all that could be desired. We shall await with interest...
...that appointment he was employed in a number of important posts in the British Foreign Office. Sir Eric is 48 years of age, a half brother of and heir presumptive to the 15th Earl of Perth. He is of medium height and size. Above his dimpled chin are a pair of sparkling blue eyes and a small mustache. There is nothing about him to make him distinguished and it has been written of him that he would never be noticed in a crowd. A year ago in Geneva, he was often to be seen driving about in a Ford coup...
...into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal Potentate, who came from Sierra Leone for the ceremony...
...Hitchcock. They rely on expert horsemanship, which the present invaders possess to a greater degree than any of the Americans save Webb. They play a clever, maneuvering, short-passing game. In combination play, an English Back usually stays near his goal continually. No. 3, the pivotal man, pairs either with him or with No. 2, leaving No. 1 to "ride off" the opposing defense or play a lone hand. An American Back often sets off on field-long gallops to score. No. 3 then drops back. Nos. 1 and 2 try to pair together at all times...
...Play for the national mixed doubles title was interlarded with the men's matches. By the end of the week young Helen Wills and young Vincent Richards were left to face the 1923 champions, Molla Mallory and "BigHearted Bill" Tilden. The younger pair, on a hair-trigger edge, fired away brilliantly, bagged the title...