Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assembled upon this field of sad memories were half a million souls. Red officers and soldiers in many uniforms; workers in white and blue blouses; Communist athletes, male and female, the former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue...
...pair of greedy boys from the French family next door got the Wimbledon bowl away from John's American cousins just before everyone went home. This might not have happened, some thought, if little "Vinnie" Richards, one of the Americans, had gone to bed earlier the week of the party, had not guzzled so much of the punch...
...through her lips! And then comes the big scene! Midnight has struck-and the heroine, sleeping peacefully, dreams of her husband. . . . The door squeaks. . . . Breathless silence. . . . Then "Sweetheart," a voice whispers in the darkness. . . . "Oh, dearest," she murmurs, as, but half awakened, she feels herself being drawn into a pair of strong arms. . . . "Oh! -you know I ." But we must not tell you any more. Hurry to the nearest bookstore without a moment's delay. Price $1.97 wherever books are sold, or direct from The Authors' Press, Publishers, Auburn...
...boldest of headlines?a real rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan War," "Boy Worker Locked in Bank" (Eng.), "Priest's Auto in Accident" (Ire.), "Colonies Restless...
...eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death...