Word: tans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They did not bow or speak to the crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When...
Followed a rapid drive through the streets to Chapultepec Castle. General Calles, still in his war clothes-a big felt hat and tan suede "windbreaker"-looked tired but happy. At Chapultepec Castle he remained in secret conference with the President for some time, then motored to his own home...
Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
...prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that ignored his existence, gave tennis teas for English officers...
...fancies" of the King-Emperor include, according to Tailor and Cutter: 1) "black and tan boots"; 2) "turn-back cuffs to overcoats"; 3) "double-breasted waistcoats." . . . "Yet there is no mark of overdressing or nibbling at exotic or freakish modes...