Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adipose individuals with twin bellies swagger before a packed Young's Hotel auditorium of Curley supporters. On the stage with them, twenty other persons, some fat, some thin, none with bellies to compare with the two leaders of the gathering, rock and away to the strains of "Mother Machree." A tear glistens on the check of the adipose one on the left. Unashamed he wipes it away. The band ceases its dripping strains...
...wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
...each year theirs is the task of pacing through the livestock pens at the county fair, bestowing prizes on Indiana's finest cattle. Among the exhibits which filed hopefully past them last week were no cattle but 240 pairs of humans, assembled in Warsaw's fourth annual Twins' Convention. Judging twins, the cattlemen found, was no easy job. Practiced eyes wandered to hoofs and rumps, lingered over well-shaped shoulders. But for Warsaw's twins there was but one standard of judgment: when the judges could not tell one twin from another they pinned duplicate blue...
...years ago Columbia University psychologists took charge of a brace of identical twin boys the moment they were born to irregularly employed Manhattan parents. As a scientific experiment in deportment development Johnny was to be "conditioned" by special training and exercises whereas Jimmy was to be allowed to grow up naturally. By last winter Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw had 19-month-old Johnny boldly swimming, diving, climbing, jumping, roller-skating-accomplishments far beyond the ability of untrained Jimmy (TIME...