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Word: tanned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace twice. They deployed over the White House lawn, serenaded the President with Home on the Range, drank Mrs. Roosevelt's lemonade, showed such eagerness to shake the hand of a woman who has homes both in the country (Hyde Park) and city (Manhat tan) that Mrs. Roosevelt had to withdraw behind three White House aides. They made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Arthur E. Brigden, 67, of Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research, she had discovered that Martha Washington was "a thorough housekeeper, looking after every detail of household affairs, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Friendship's Flag Unfurled | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Head of Women Investors in America, Inc. is Cathrine Curtis, a tall, grey-haired onetime radio commentator. Wearing a tan costume and a roughrider hat, Director Curtis keynoted: "Have we been blinded by demagogs? Have we been lulled to a state of catalepsy by political pap, or have we been too lazy to assert and demand our sovereign rights? . . . Capitalism is not a devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Congress | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pastel Hideout | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Best of the Ganso nudes exhibited last week was the figure of a young model seated by a tea table, a black lace scarf thrown over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nudist | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...everyone. Functioning as an inspiration both to Herr Hitler and her female contemporaries is a job which, for Cinemactress Riefenstahl, is never done. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Führer Hitler and giving visitors to Germany a startling picture of what he thinks German girls should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Games at Garmisch | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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