Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
Such was the Washington situation fortnight ago when Mr. Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs and Mr. Garner returned from Uvalde, with a new tan sombrero, terming himself "just a country boy trying to get along with the city slickers." Promptly they put their heads together, decided it was politically too dangerous to try to spike Mr. Byrns's ambitions. So Mr. Garner emerged from the White House and slyly told reporters in answer to questions...
...locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...tan-fu Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making...
...last week a dark, ebullient man got off a train in Washington. Bubbling with energy and high spirits, he snapped his fingers at the rain coming down in sheets. Above his tan button shoes he wore a raincoat lined with rabbit fur. But His Excellency Oswaldo Aranha, new Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S., looked about at the sodden streets and buildings and exclaimed, "Maravilhoso...