Word: tab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famous Rumbas (Decca). Henry King's band offers the most exciting and most faithful single collection of Caribbean rhythms, some (like Tabú) less famous than others (like Siboney...
...military circles were surprised and not entirely pleased when the President, after talking with U. S. District Attorney Lamar Hardy of Manhattan, suddenly cracked out on the subject of spies. The U. S., said the President, was woefully under-equipped for counterespionage-for tab-keeping on foreign agents in the U. S. (not for spying abroad, in which the U. S. never did specialize). The Army & Navy intelligence services must be strengthened, said the President. This announcement synchronized misleadingly with the State Department's deadline for the registration of commercial, legal and publicity agents for foreign powers within...
...restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers were keeping...
...garrison that holds it for three days against British artillery fire. Meanwhile, life goes on even more squalidly than usual among the lodgers in the Clitheroe rooming house. When rebellion degenerates into looting of Dublin stores, Fluther (Barry Fitzgerald), the barfly, takes advantage of his opportunity to erase his tab at a pub, fill his pockets with bottles. Bessie Burgess (Eileen Crowe) makes off with a baby carriage, a bird cage and an armful of finery...
...tabless tab collar in candy stripes and in forest tone plain colors are also on the spot this coming winter...