Word: pairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outer courtyard of the Palace a detachment of the Royal Household Cavalry (the Blues) were sitting at attention in their saddles and as the first pair of horses appeared through the entrance which connects the outer with the inner courtyard, a rasping order brought flashing swords to a royal salute. Somewhere in the background the drums of the Grenadier Guards rolled and the band broke into the national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry...
Since Salome's time, many a man has lost his head over a pretty pair of legs and a smile. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that Columbia oarsmen have turned to the ballet during the tedious winter months. Tank rowing is said to be a terrible grind. And who is better qualified to develop rhythm and form than a Ziegfeld beauty...
Prospects for a successful season appear to be very good at present. Slocum and Baldwin, according to Coach Drohan, are the best pair of forwards that have appeared on a Freshman team since Lewis Gordon '24 was a member of the first-year quintet during the 1920-21 season. A bitter struggle is going on between McCurdy and Green for center, with the former holding a slight edge...
Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...
...lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...