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Word: pairings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then he arose and stood gazing up at the sidewalk level, where hundreds of feet could be seen as they passed the window. He pointed to one seedy pair of Legs, sauntering by on broken shoes. "There, but for the grace of God, stand I," he murmured. Suddenly he swung around and began to talk, crossing and recrossing the office at a single stride...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bull v. Romero | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dinner for Ten | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

During the past season the 1928 football leader alternated at halfback and quarterback, proving himself a star in the lateral pass plays in which his fleetness of foot and a sure pair of hands stood him in good stead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH, DASHING HALFBACK, WILL LEAD 1928 TEAM | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...wasted, all the prisoners appeared healthy and little the worse for their experiences. The two men had beards a month old and both were clad in Moorish dress, their own clothes having been confiscated by the brigands. M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ransomed | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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