Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twin children of Thomas Mann, the well known author, said that they had come to America for two reasons: primarily to tell Americans about a unification of Europe; and secondly to suggest grounds that America and Germany might have in common, which could help to establish a closer relationship between the two countries...
...novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case, a murder, in the Simpson case, a suicide, by the boy twin...
...twin-sister Erica is a noted actress who has been playing with Max Reinhardt's company during his present season in New York...
...tests. Lectures were given on habits, attentiveness, mental hygiene, memorizing, and choosing a vocation. The results that the grade of this group in intelligence examinations has been raised, and that the group is seventy-five percent successful in college and is on the up grade are interpreted as twin justifications of the scheme...
...Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Committee on Committees, arose to ask that the new committee be appointed orally, he was greeted by the mocking drawl of the chief of the Democrats' sarcasm department, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. With considerable prompting from Senator Caraway of Arkansas, his twin wit, Mr. Harrison undertook to remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives" had been handsomely placed on the committee...