Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
...stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian Government, a silver punch bowl; 7) from the Norwegian Storting a pair of silver candlesticks and probably an increase in Crown Prince Olaf's yearly civil list from $13,000 to $26,000, though the enabling legislation had not passed last week...
This is a book of women: a pair of spinsters, puttering and snickering into their neighbors' affairs; a country school teacher, sparse and feline, who soured with envy and wrecked a petty vengeance; Grandma Truelove who dozed in her chair, scorning the eternal sewing and child-bearing of women; Cecily, her daughter-in-law, a wiry little soul so neat of body and mind that she dreaded the thought of Aunt Lotta Truelove, a creature of passions who had had three husbands and as many children but neglected them all for theosophy. Specifically, Cecily hated Lotta because Sophie, daughter...
...required to take the April hour examination regularly scheduled for the course. Slowly but surely Harvard instructors seem to be realizing that the establishment of the general examinations is more than a mere addition to former duties. Progress does not mean that we hitch our good old pair of trotters to the front bumper of an automobile and so combine the best features of both; and it is equally idle to hope for the success of an educational system which fails to recognize the implications of its forward steps...
...Duncan Sisters' brief appearance is the high spot in this week's rather mediocre performance at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. They please with several sparkling songs and a few clever imitations. As of previous years the well known pair runs away with the audience. Their skill is manifested not only through their voices but also by performances on the piano and guitar...