Word: paired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...
Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made...
...formula of the show within a show. Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...
...Pepsodent. Other than that, they have missed only two broadcasts-one episode was silenced by a general SOS, but later printed in many newspapers; and once they went hunting in Maryland and were snowed in. Even when Correll's baby died last January, the show went on, the pair doing the first broadcast together, and Gosden reading all the parts at the rebroadcast few hours later. Although other radio teams are older than Amos 'n' Andy (see p. 59), when they leave NBC for CBS they will have given 5,208 performances including rebroadcasts, an unapproached radio...
...Negro's heels. Down the backstretch, Glenn put on his famous finishing sprint, tried to edge around Borican's shoulder. But Borican, wise in track ways, moved out. When Glenn tried to slither inside him, he moved toward the rail. He was still in front as the pair flashed over the finish line. When the time was announced the crowd went wild. It was 2:08.8, apparently a new world's record. Cunningham, too, was under the record...