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Word: tannings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening night, Producer Carroll appeared attired in a rumpled tan smock and wearing earphones through which he had been listening to the performance. He said something about wanting to give people a big show for a maximum admission of $3. He introduced his backer, Banker William Reynolds Edrington of Fort Worth. Tex. and Manhattan, president of Edrington-Minot Corp. and Edrington Investment Co. It was as a consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flesh Cathedral | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...will go where Taiwan has already placed $14,000,000-to mountain-nestled Lake Jitsu-Getsu-Tan (Lake of the Moon and the Sun). There a large power plant is being built which will have a maximum capacity of 100,000-k.w. hours. Taiwan's output last year came to 155,000,000-k.w. hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: By Lake Jitsu-Getsu-Tan | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...China it was especially welcome.*Long-coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Markets | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...plunged again into a round of sports, balls, nightclubbing and worse. By "worse" is meant the escapade of Prince George. Having bathed at Copacabana Beach last week he walked out of the water, removed the upper half of his suit, lay down Gandhi-like on the sand for a tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Um Braco | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...voyage will take ten days in all, leaving Boston on Friday, April 10, and returning to the same port on Monday, April 20. Three days will be spent in Bermuda, allowing ample opportunity for sight-seeing, bathing, sun-basking, and the acquisition of a fashionable tan. The cruise party will live on board ship while in Bermuda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN TO TAKE CRUISE TO BERMUDA ON LUCKNER'S YACHT | 3/24/1931 | See Source »

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