Word: tannings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting was finally ended with an optimistic speech by Mrs. D. Leigh Cclvin, who predicted that national prohibition would be restored by the W.C.T.U. because "we've already done so many strange things." As a last cheering gesture a Mrs. Kaiser who "wore a brown ensemble with a light tan plume in her hat" sang one of her own compositions, the last lines of which carried this inspiring message...
...waved the finger and pushed back the upturned rim of his tan fedora revealing a stray black lock glued to his moist forehead. "Get a summons? Sure I got a summons. But I'm not going to see the commissioner. I've got no business with him. I'm a busy man. I've got no time to see him. I've got no business with him." Jabbing his finger at the inquisitor, Mr. Samuels emphasized the latter point, intimating that if the commissioner wished to satisfy his curiosity he could do so, but at 30a Boylston...
...Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew...
Died. Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai-Wang-Chu-Chueh- Le-Lang-Chieh. the Dalai Lama, 13th reincarnation of Buddha, ruler of Tibet; in Lhasa...
Significant Battleships. Directly after his inaugural Provisional President de Cespedes, still sweating profusely, changed into a suit of white linen, enlivened by glistening tan shoes and an orange-striped shirt. "The people of Cuba desired the re-establishment of normal conditions," he told U. S. correspondents in perfect English, "and they acted almost unanimously in the quick, effective manner necessary to their...