Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles...
...crossed the Ossetian Road on horseback. My dear, have you ever ridden in a Caucasian saddle? It's got a ridge as sharp as a roof. I had a pair of camel's hair breeches-have you ever worn camel's hair pants...
...Vladikavkas we wangled tickets on the railroad to Moscow. There were 13 of us in the car including a Russian general. We thought he was a porter and tipped him for getting us tea. My dear, how could we tell? All he had on was a pair of pants and an openwork undershirt...
Your a recent review of Hanky and myself contains a hideous pair of errors. Won't you please correct these...
...Philadelphia; shot with six soft-nosed bullets by an unidentified gunman. Racketeer Callen who usually wore a bullet-proof vest and travelled in an armored car, was apparently spotted* before dawn, defenseless. In his apartment police found a rifle with silencer, a shot gun, an acetylene torch, nitroglycerine, six pair of canvas gloves and opium equipment...