Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Chauncey Tasinagi Kills-in-the-Bush Yellow Robe, 63, Sioux chief; in Rockefeller Institute Hospital, Manhat tan; of pneumonia. In 1927 he presided over the Sioux tribal initiation of Chief White Eagle Calvin Coolidge...
...taxicab in the Rue Rousselet, they admitted. On the evening of Jan. 26 an unidentified Russian woman at Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman had been lying off the mouth of the Seine near Houlgate for several days, that it disappeared...
...hour and a half. It might have been luck that Mohawk Pal found the birds first, or just that he was keener that day. But no backer of pointers would make excuses for Mary Blue: the event was not arguable. Pal won with five finds. White, black, tan and ticked, stanch and stylish, fast and independent, he is owned by E, M. Tutwiler of Birmingham, Ala. and was handled by Forrest Dean of Wheeler, Ala. Besides permanent possession of the Merriman cup, his win brought...
...seven he had mastered Chinese music, studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...