Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of historical fact, horses, dean's offices, light wines and beers, bullets and billets, play parts in the past of these two halls. Massachusetts, the older of the pair and the oldest building now standing in the University, has perhaps the less eventful history. It was erected in 1720 at the expense of the Province of Massachusetts to meet the demands of the housing problem. Complaint was made that "a considerable number of students were obliged to take lodgings in the town of Cambridge for want of accomodations in the College", and to please the collegiate commuters...
...witness an almost incredible spectacle. Their mayor, one Anthony M. Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle. Sitting beside him, dressed up as Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed...
...bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...
...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...
...Belmar, N. J., one Ralph Berardi clanged his bell and cried his cry in front of the house of a Mrs. Minnie Levine. Out came Mrs. Levine with a pair of scissors. Mr. Berardi ground them for her on his scissors-grinder as expertly as he could. Mrs. Levine eyed the result, her lips in a purse of doubt. Suddenly she seized Mr. Berardi by his baggy trousers. Snip! Before you could say "Spaghetti" she had sliced a gaping moon out of one trouser, right at the knee. Ventilated, humilitated Mr. Berardi rushed to court...