Word: pairings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play will carry the fated pair through their early days in Manhattan slums. After a short time spent happily in Europe where "soul is soul regardless of skin," the pair will return to enact the second and final act in an apartment owned by the Negro's wealthy parents. Ella, the white wife, will love her husband but hate his race. Her nerves will run out to insanity as he struggles in vain to pass his examinations at the Law School. She will prowl about with a carving knife and interfere with his study. She will go quite...
...alternating with his partner, bicycled around Madison Square Garden continuously for six days (144 hours). Several other pairs of men did likewise. During that time they all rode more than 2,454 miles and 7 laps. One pair rode more than 2,454 miles and 9 laps. That pair won the International Six-Day Bicycle Race...
...winning pair consisted of Maurice Brocco "the little wop," and Marcel Buysse, native Belgian. For six days the architectural monstrosity of Madison Square resounded with the cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" Idlers and sportsmen of a type would step in to see the race at odd intervals, would cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" and depart...
...best man in the second pair was named Oscar Egg. Together with one Duprey, this Oscar Egg made a record in 1915-2,625 miles...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained ''enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a ten penny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store for 98?.-TIME...