Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes. Plenty of exercise was afforded in keeping the horses going in one direction and the driver in his seat...
...Pair Oars...
...team will open its schedule this afternoon when it journeys to Southboro to play the St. Mark's School team. G. H. Perkins, W. T. Smith, and L. A. Weisman will compete in the singles. Perkins will also play in the doubles with A. R. Allen, and Smith will pair off with G. D. Debevoise as a second combination...
...Famous Mrs. Pair. Adapted from the play by James Forbes, and, on the whole, well-adapted, except near the finish. There the customary race between the midnight express and the speeding automobile just had to come in, to be followed by the customary fisticuffs in the hotel-room between the well-manicured villyun and the simple but hearty brother of the ingenue...
While the value of the mark was dropping almost to that mythical region in mathematics, infinity, the Passion Players continued to charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder...