Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal, pedagogical, cultural and political capacities of each individual. The winners of this adapted army efficiency test will receive prizes as follows, in addition to the somewhat embarrassing distinction of having their names engraved upon red tablets of honor. First Prize - One overcoat, one suit of clothes, one pair of boots, one watch and 1,000 this year's rubles for buying books (or a book). Second Prize -Delete the watch. Third Prize-Delete the watch and the suit of clothes. It is rumored that other prize winners will receive books on "Communistic Ideology." What the Soviet is going...
National Doubles. For the first time in history the national doubles title is a hybrid. It was won by William T. Tilden, 2nd, and Brian I. C. Norton, of South Africa. They played a former Davis Cup pair in the finals, R. Norris Williams, 2nd., and Watson M. Washburn, and won only after the most desperate five-set match at 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The individual brilliance of Tilden dominated the court, with the occasional flashes of Williams and the steadiness of Norton attracting less consistent attention. After the first two sets the playing...
Concealed in a pair of pajamas and a fur coat, the heroine (Boots Wooster), elopes with the hero (Kenneth MacKenna). Concealed in the coat lining are the stolen bonds; concealed in the heroine's past is a presumably dead husband. The husband comes out of the past, the bonds out of the lining, and the heroine out of the coat. The faithful chauffeur appears with a revolver and forces the supposed husband to confess to looking exactly like his dead brother and to stealing the bonds. Then comes the punch of the play. It turns out?you'll hardly believe...
Walter Johnson, Washington pitcher (American League) : "I admitted I am not as good as I was 10 or 15 years ago. 'It's a pair of weak legs,' said I, 'rather than an ailing arm that is robbing me of much of my speed...
Throughout the Winter there was noted in the tangle of traffic in the New York theatre district a certain automobile radiator mounted with a sweeping pair of steer horns. Little boys, old men, actors, girls, prosperous personages stopped to gaze agape at the primitive ornament. " Must be advertisin' something" was the preliminary reaction. Closer inspection revealed that it was advertising something...