Word: tannish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal's austere appearance in pictures may have deceived even sharp-eyed Tailor &Cutter. "His well-known tunic," wrote Wendell Willkie in One World, "is of finely woven material, and is apt to be a soft green or a delicate pink; his trousers a light tannish yellow or blue...
...would say, is classed as small but heavy, tannish color with white markings, hair similar to a collie's, had on broad, brown leather, brass-studded collar, wags tail in curve over back most of time. His habits are shaking hands with everybody, and with his left holds hands; also sits up and climbs a stepladder. His name is Rubanof...
...went to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in 150 years. She was good-looking, young (18), auburn-haired. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane - the brokers she represented-guarded against too great a panic by garbing her plainly in a tannish gabardine uniform. Even so there was excitement, and will be more. For Helen Hanzelin, until three months ago a junior in Long Island City's Bryant High School, is only the first of more to come. From the Exchange and its member firms 3,600 male employes have gone...
...Silas Green from New Orleans claims that this is its 51st year on the road; oldtimers can remember it for at least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found they had better vary their mishaps each season...