Word: paired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, Please. That night none of the royal family bothered to dress for dinner. They all ate a cold snack in the palace sitting room, and during the long wait that followed, Philip paced up & down in an old pair of flannels and tieless shirt...
...papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...
...cable, which cost nearly $13 million, is about as thick as a rolled-up newspaper, and contains eight coaxial tubes, a pair of which can carry 600 simultaneous phone conversations or two TV programs. The final adjustments should be completed early in 1949. The first major event to be televised from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River will probably be President Truman's inauguration in Washington...
...Pair of Garters. His Manhattan studio on 18th Street has a dusty, comfortable, behind the scenes look; it is littered with circus costumes, antlers, decoy ducks, a trumpet, a mandolin, a pair of pink garters. Photographs of archaic Greek statues share the walls with theater posters, cutouts of full-blown society belles of the '90s, and shiny dragoon helmets...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...