Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
Next in order came 118 pair of shoes with 15 odd ones thrown in ranging from patent leather pumps to ragged sneakers. Trousers, coats, and articles of underwear came next in the race for quantity ranging from 105 to 87 articles, vests lagging far behind, only 51 being contributed. The other articles of clothing contributed included overcoats, bats and caps, shirts, collars, socks, bath robes, and sweaters...
Long Pants (Harry Langdon). The Boy (Harry Langdon) consumes such inflaming literature as "Don Juan," "Great Lovers of History," "When His Love Grew Cold." Therefore, when his father provides him his first pair of long trousers, the adolescent breaks out in a romantic rash with tragic freckles. He mounts his trusty, high-spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses...
...Ladies' Home Journal. Said he: "There is a new order of nobility that the press of our great cities and the pink and green pamphleteers of our literati have exalted to the highest place among us almost overnight. The distinguishing symbols of this order are a stubby pair of goat's horns and an elongated goat's tail. There may be added a hairy pair of goat's legs, but they are rather superfluous in a country that carries 24,000,000 automobiles on its highways. ... The motto seems to be, in the editorial sanctums where...
Editor George R. Dale of the Post-Democrat fared worse. A fugitive from indictment for criminally libeling Judge Dearth, by saying that His Honor's maladministration of justice was morally responsible for a pair of murders, Editor Dale had been abiding across the state line, in Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman...