Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once of the bourgeoisie and the artistocracy. Rowing has attained great popularity for both sexes. The observant traveler is apt to be particularly struck by young Amazonian working girls, who slather up and down the Moscow River, with nothing on but a red kerchief, a rowing shirt, and a pair of blue trunks...
That, according to court gossip, was the beginning of as determined a siege as has been laid these many years to the Holy Office, at the instance of a pair of brown eyes and two lips imperiously pouting...
...tall golfer, in a white shirt and a pair of dejected grey flannel breeches, went out to the first tee of the Philmont Country Club, Philadelphia, to play against a nattier fellow?one arrayed in checkerboard golf-pantings, ring-streaked stockings like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts...
...most important of Bret Harte's tales to be done into celluloid. It manages to preserve all the vices, none of the virtues, of the script. Some will enjoy it because it furnishes Betty Bronson with an opportunity to see how girlish she can make a pair of ordinary corduroy breeches; others will be irate because they misread "Bret" for "Bill...
...pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...