Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleopatra playing. Cleopatra forfeits the game, but in a return encounter Antony saves the day by a play which he secures from a soothsayer. By a twist of dialogue the misunderstanding between Antony and Cleopatra is cleared up, the desired happy ending is achieved, and King Mud grants the pair their freedom...
Princeton's new Memorial Rink will be officially opened today and the entire university, like the boy in the Dutch fairy story, will don a pair of golden skates and hold celebration...
This continuous decline of the mark must mean the gradual disintegration of. German industry and government. Although the average worker is earning only about 300 marks a day, men's suits are priced at 40,000 marks, a pair of street-shoes at 10,000, a liter of milk 48, and other commodities in proportion. From these figures it is evident that the mass of people is swiftly losing its buying power. This means, in the long run: hunger. And the unequivocal teaching of history is that hunger is the torch of revolution...
...Holbein Portrait is painted in a roundel of oak and represents a young man, almost full face, dressed in a black coat and cap. In his left hand he holds a pair of gloves. The background is a greenish blue, and on it is inscribed: "Anno Domi 1535 Etatis Svae 28." Professor Paul Ganz, the well-know authority on Holbein, writing of this portrait says: "The Portrait of a Young Man" is a genuine, exquisite work of Hans Holbein the Younger. The drawing for this picture is in the Library of Windsor Caste. . .In my opinion this unknown...
Perhaps Abraham, the father of his country, really did emigrate from Ur of Chaldea. And Noah might have been confused in his story: responsibilities aboard-ark must have made it difficult for him to scan the horizon with full care. Perhaps an unnoticed house-top floated away with a pair of lucky occupants to another valley, saving the Sumerian branch of the family to carry on the tradition in Babylonia...