Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...concerns an old, unused Pennsylvania mansion, and the resentment of the family ghosts who haunt it when they learn it is to be inhabited again by living people. What alone cheers them is that there is to be a wedding in the house, for now, after 87 years, a pair of dead lovers can be married, too. The weddings are interrupted by murder, which turns the second half of the evening into a whodunit. The whole evening is tethered to a gag which makes ghosts visible only to virgins...
...wearing an old crinkled sweater, a battered white hat and a floppy pair of pants with the bottoms turned up (see cut) appeared at the flossy Mandelieu course in Cannes, France, played a bit of golf, went home. One good reason startled club officials did not give the old fellow the bum's rush: he was the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan...
Just three weeks short of his second birthday, Freddie Thomason stood up last week for the first time in his life. No less remarkable, he wore a little pair of overalls, and sat down-also for the first time in his life...
Last week bright-eyed Freddie was at the institute again. Dr. Kessler had decided that his trunk muscles had developed enough for him to be fitted with his first pair of legs. Made of plastic, the legs are only thigh-length (usual for learners), and held to Freddie's body by a corset-like harness. The toes of the stumps point backward for better balance. A simple screw adjustment made by the nurse or mother makes the legs flex so that Freddie can sit down...
Instead of moving in with a fast sales patter, the clerk who spends "three minutes buttering up the customer can trim seven minutes off the usual 20 it takes to sell a pair of shoes," said Talbott. He also checked displays at 70 Joyce retailers, found that white light on a display "is too hard" and helps few sales, purple light even fewer ("it's old-timy"). But yellow and red lights ("warm, emotional colors") boost sales of summer shoes because they excite the "impulse buying" of women...