Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY-A pair of genial vaudevillians trying to run a village hotel (TIME...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
...foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends...
...University links corps will line-up as follows: C. L. Stover '30, No. 1; O. L. Winston '29, No. 2; J. W. Hutchinson '30, No. 3; J. W. Filoon '29, No. 4. Captain J. A. Hutchinson '28 will be prevented from playing by impending examinations. Stover and Winston, paired together, will compose the first foursome combination; and the second pair will be made up of Hutchinson and Filoon...
...every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There is the inevitable pair of spinsters, who paint wretched watercolors, and quarrel over Hedonism. There are plenty of charming young girls, and no eligible young men. Finally there is Sydney Warren, a lovely girl of 22, sophisticated, neurotic, who provides the hotel with faintly perverted gossip because of her infatuation for a charming widow...