Word: tans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe to say what next one may expect. Before long, mayhap, the hungry student, entering Jimmie's or the Waldorf, may find at his shoulders a brass-buttoned upholder of the law listening intently to make sure that such a misleading and damaging term as "black and tan" is not employed. The logical sequence, of course will be the "blind puppie" where, for two or three times the ordinary price, one may still feel the thrill of quietly whispering to the man behind the counter: "One hot-dog plenty of mustard...
...Manhattan theatre district (at 51st St. and Seventh Ave.). John Ringling, circus man; Tex Rickard, greatest of athletic promoters; E. F. Albee, czar of vaudeville, are behind the project. The building will include at least two theatres beside the arena, and will seat untold thousands. In the summertime the tan l ark will evolve into a swimming pool than which " only the ocean is larger." The announcement spells death to historic Madison Square Garden, for years home of circus, bike race, title bout...
...Hove Sound, the President missed a day's golfing because the course was out of condition. At Ormond Mrs. Harding made her first public appearance since her illness. At Palm Beach she walked a hundred yards to her automobile, unassisted. Meanwhile the President acquired a coat of tan and a much needed rest. He was as lighthearted "as on the day of his election...
...brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another is a German noble, his father is an extreme Tory M. P., who favors reprisals in Ireland, his father-in-law is an Earl perched on a dizzy pinnacle of aristocracy, his brother, a Black and Tan, is shot by a sniper. Furthermore, Bertram Pollard has an uncommonly soft heart. He can no more hate and despise the " mob" with whom he fought in France than he can turn his back on his Tory connections. So he goes striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying...
President Harding's coat of tan...