Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...Then, too, boxing does not require any more equipment than a pair of trunks and some tennis shoes. We furnish the gloves. You do not have to change into a special uniform everytime you come down...
...sophomore fullbacks, Schmidt and Bunn, scored four touchdowns, a pair apiece, and with some assistance from relays of their Iowa teammates rollicked over North Dakota...
...place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces. Ranger Irons began to .climb. The bear climbed after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible...
...knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career...