Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the better known performers will be R. L. Hapgood '25, familiar Harvard Square figure, who has been runner-up in national competitions of fancy skating. Mrs. Theresa W. Blanchard and N. W. Niles '09, pair champions of the United States from 1918 to 1928, will also present an exhibition. C. M. Rotch '01 and A. M. Goodridge '00 will be among the Lancers in the Carnival...
...books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
...fourth Christmas that the Hoovers had spent at sea. The ship's carpenter had built a fireplace with red electric lights for coals. Capt. Train presented Mr. Hoover with a pair of binoculars, Mrs. Hoover with a blue and white Brazilian shawl. There was a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
...Most of these people have not had a new stitch of clothing or a new pair of shoes since the General Strike, two years ago. . . . Maybe they listened a bit to the Bolshevik then, but that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
Rough checking by both teams marked the third period play as the Crimson carried the attack to the Toronto goal. Time and again the Harvard offensive broke on the stalwart opposing defensive pair. What seemed to be a certain Crimson scoring chance was blasted when Captain Whitehead hurled his stick across the ice to knock the puck away from Tudor...