Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once acquired, said he, the picture-collecting habit "becomes like the drug habit ; you cannot live without it. Your walls may be bulging with paintings, business may be bad and prospects none too good, baby needs a pair of shoes, and you've sworn off buying. But honest, it's just this once and there's nothing you can do about it. There's no cure for it. Fact is, you don't want to be cured...
...solidly respectable, 85-year-old farmer named Robert E. Bunker died last week at his home on the outskirts of Mount Airy, a rural community in North Carolina. He was the last of twelve children of Eng, half of the once-famed pair of Siamese twins displayed throughout the nation by Showman P. T. Barnum in the early 19th Century...
...serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
...good s the first, which means it is very good. "Up the Street" deviates somewhat from the Band's previous crop of football songs; it groups four Sousa marches, "Stars and stripes Forever," "Washington Post," "Semper Fidelis," and "El Capitan" with two familiar circus the Double Eagle,"and a pair of local arrangement long overdue for recording, "Our director" and "Up the street...
Quorum, her new story of postwar Yorkshire, is patterned on the weather-beaten but still serviceable formula of Grand Hotel. Author Bentley herds together eight more or less prominent citizens at a municipal committee meeting, and then, with dogged literalness, rehearses their past lives. Most of the characters conveniently pair off to personify the clash between the traditional virtues and the modern corner-cutting that is the main theme of the book...