Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City convention last week to direct considerable of their 1927-28 advertising to men. Men, said F. A. Adams of Cincinnati to his associates, spend $60,000,000 yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising to women smokers...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Theosophist, "Vehicle of the World Teacher," "Bringer of the Word," "spiritual son" of Mrs. Annie Besant, sailed from the U. S. last week, wearing a grey lounge suit, tan shoes and spats, and reading Elmer Gantry...
City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
...black and tan...
...April 20, from Connecticut to China, from Australia to Alaska, alumni of Yale University will sit down to a "round the world" dinner celebration, which will be the first event of its kind to be held. Invitations are now being sent to more tan 30000 graduates and former students residing in 66 foreign countries and dependencies of the United States...