Word: twins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klan and the Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities working for the election of the Republican national ticket. Their practices are intolerable. Their intolerance is disgraceful. They have exhibited some of the meanest motives which ever had a place in American politics. What they offer as patriotism and public morality has protected or promoted some of the worst corruption...
...year-old twin sons of Gen. Charles Henry Montgomerie y Agramonte, heard that their father had celebrated his 98th birthday on the porch of his home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean...
...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
Married. Maude R. Bouvier, socially famed twin (of Mrs. Henry Clarkson Scott) daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John Vernou Bouvier Jr., of New York; and John E. Davis; in East Hampton...
Died. Eugene Levering, 82, onetime (1878-1921) president of the National Bank of Commerce (Baltimore), and after its merger with the Merchants National Bank, chairman of the board, trustee and patron of the Johns Hopkins University, ofttime contributor to the Anti-Saloon League; in Baltimore. His twin brother, Joshua Levering, was the Prohibition party's nominee for the presidency...