Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled to sad bony wisps. Such dogs throw a ghastly shadow as they limp about in the sunlight...
...Pueblo, Col., one Dale Sechrist, high school pupil, bought a pair of baggy Oxford trousers, donned them, went to school. ... In half an hour Dale Sechrist wore no trousers at all, was unconscious. From an upper branch of a nearby tree, flouted by the wind, derided from below, Dale's baggy bags flew high. Ku Kluxing klassmates had not liked them...
Lindner and Pratt, Harvard tackles, are aggressive players, but Gates and Rosengarten, the opposing pair, should match them well today. Gates has hardly missed a game in three years, and is especially good under kicks...
...appearance of the twirp it belongs to are altogether too much for me. The only thing which is worse, and it's nothing short of nauseous, are painted slickers. I saw one yesterday and honestly on it was drawn a big green and red parrot. Above it was a pair of huge tortoise-shelled spectacles and a be-ribboned hat. Well, I was sick. You can forgive Harold Lloyd--he gets paid for it. But I'll bet you wouldn't and him dead in such a get-up outside a movie studio. This collegiate business just about finishes...
...wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...