Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that has not yet been solved. Then, a fortnight ago, a black armored car roared down Cicero's main street, spattered the Hawthorne Hotel with machine gun bullets, but missed King Caponi who was standing on the front porch. After such events, "Scarface Al" puts on his light tan shoes, picks up his cane, leaves town...
...With a proud tan and a clear head, the President arose early on his first morning back at the White House. He read a large batch of mail, signed documents, received callers. Among them were: Cabinet members Hoover, Kellogg, Sargent, Wilbur; Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, who discussed relief plans for Florida; Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio...
...nation tried to like him, too. In 1904, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom's squeaking tan shoes paced the floors of Manhattan's Hoffman House. He slapped the back of August Belmont, swapped yarns with Colonel Clayton of Alabama, Jim Griggs of Georgia and John R. McLean of Ohio, best-dressed man at the convention. But the Democrats had had but one U. S. President* since before the Civil War, and Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic nominee for 1904, did not increase the list...
...Mellon cheerful, well bronzed with vacation tan, obstinately refused to do anything but enjoy himself. He purchased outrageously hued pajamas in the Rue de la Paix. He motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty...
...done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; at the Whitney estate, Wheatley Hills, Westbury, L. I. Aged, ill, Sculptor Ardisson clambered wearily up a 100 ft. water tower, leapt. In his pocket was a note, "Mrs. Whitney-you win. Tan-Tan, [his son], tout est atteint [all is accomplished]." Died. William H. Thompson, 75, president of the Thompson Time Stamp† Co.; in Manhattan. Died. Charles William Eliot, 92; at Northeast Harbor, Maine...