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...point of a pair of scissors they forced Capt. John Kelley to lead them out of the penitentiary grounds. Casually, they climbed in Deputy Klein's car, drove away- free men. That night, a posse recaptured five of them. Weeks later, Duchowski was found on the Mexican border. One, James Price, is still free...
...Poker term, usually signifying a pair of Jacks or better...
...answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...
...stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic relief by the inevitable Jewish-Irish pair of privates, and painful insinuation that Sergeant Quirt's was a case of true love for the French ma'm'selle...
...least very near, Broadway, and "The Pirates" is in rehearsal by the same excellent company. There are rumors of a formation of a Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire company. And then, as a climax, a movement has been started in England to "nationalize" the operettas of the witty pair--that is the governmental purchase of all existing copyrights; for, like A. B. C. shops and rainy weather, Gilbert and Sullivan have become an English institution...