Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience left the theatre whistling and humming snatches from at least three definite song hits contributed by Lewis Gensler: "Don't Forget," "Cross Your Heart," "Everything Will Happen For The Best." The plot is frankly based upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help...
Before the national doubles tournament started last week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being...
...Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple words, the President asked Dr. Coupal to stop at Saranac Lake and get him a new pair of fishing boots...
...where tinsel is the mode. Manager Wiley was inevitably destined by nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen...
...served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...