Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make it on time. With care he picked his Mtire?silk-faced cutaway, striped trousers, silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith's 'elbows were Mr. Raskob and William L. Kenny, vacation playmates...
...notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
...Rochelle, Va., Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, 93, was cutting, last week, her third set of natural teeth...
Five years ago Jo Davidson traveled in Russia for several weeks with Senator La Follette. On their return to Paris a bust and some sketches were made. The Senator departed. The sculptor never saw him again. When he set to work three years ago on the La Follette statue, the La Follette family sent him clothes, shoes and gloves that had been worn by the deceased Senator...
This was in the Elegant Eighties. A decade passed, and another young man, walking down the same aisle, awakened even gentler, more contented rustlings. For while a church is properly proud of a Good Young Man, no bounds are set to its love of a Good Young Man who is also Rich. And this particular young man was so very Rich, and promised in time to be so incredibly Rich, that all Baptists everywhere thought of him with gushing Christian tenderness...