Word: tanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the Germans did not like canned salmon, said it looked like tan shoe polish. I cruised the American occupied area, suggested to the local grocerymen that they put a can of salmon on the counter with some crackers, ask the customers to sample it, tell them of the fat content. Salmon went well after that...
...prospective Cinderella is Make-up Man Willis. To girls with buck teeth and freckles, to elderly ladies with grizzled hair, to buxom young things with fat red cheeks and curves too voluminous, he points out cosmetic errors, boldly proposes new hairdos, new foundations. Sample Willis ukase: "Using a rose-tan powder foundation cream will do a blending job. But it won't hide freckles. In order to hide your freckles we'd have to make you as dark as an Indian and all the sparkle would be gone out of your face." Mrs. Fitzgerald offers suggestions on clothes...
...Wood, known around Dalton as Sister Kate, made some fancy, fringed spreads for Wanamaker's, by 1929 was producing as many as 600 a day, often had 1,500 at once out in the homes of her tufters. To swank B. Altman in Manhat tan Sister Kate sold $60,000 worth of spreads a year...
...sitting room was the real goal of the Democrats who trod the path of Term III, a tan-walled bedroom with green-spread twin beds, a screen, a telephone wire direct to the White House...
Students may be charged up to $40 by their colleges as a "laboratory fee," get the rest free. Flight instruction is farmed out to some 700 private flying schools, to which CAB pays $325 a student for the elementary course. Most schools use tan dem training planes with a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., but the Stanford unit is experimenting with a spin-proof plane equipped with tricycle landing gear and other safety features. Its first year completed with only one fatality, CAB was rewarded by a 30% reduction in premiums on the insurance it now carries for every student...