Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time, the candidate picked red for red, blue for blue, yellow for yellow. So speedy and accurate was he that naval surgeons marveled to see how a pair of human eyes could improve in 48 hours. They questioned the candidate, soon confused him, discovered the deceit. Candidate Rupp and his employe were soon arrested, lodged in a police cell under $2,000 bond, charged with attempting to defraud the U. S. out of a $12,000 education at its Naval Academy...
...French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects were usually nobodies of all nationalities. From...
...bringing a Red Cross train over tracks covered with water to a flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous scraping sound no more like the big-bellied voice of a real train than the imitation puffing that any trap-drummer can produce with a pair of wire brushes. Chaney acts well; he even walks in the stiff-shoulder fashion of old trainmen. At times he gets into the unreal story the dramatic flavor of its background. Best shot: Chaney feeling the driving-pinions, worn smooth by thousands of miles on the road...
...King-Emperor is one of the six or seven finest wing shots in England. To console him for the loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...since 1911, the year the public became mathematically conscious of his vast wealth." More than any other's, his money is responsible for Prohibition. To needy institutions went most of these millions. To needy individuals (20,000) went shiny dimes. Once to an indigent old acquaintance Rockefeller sent a pair of shoes...