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Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newest experiment in winter resorts has opened at the Harvard Club of Boston in the form of a quick-time tan applicator. Here in a little room with half a dozen cots the club members, clothed only in goggles, repose beneath the strong ultra-violet rays of a mechanical sun. In the corners of the room, to give a tropical effect, potted palms are distributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUB MEMBERS ACQUIRE TROPICAL TAN | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...standing of the Beta league is as follows: Won Lost Pct. Alpha Sigma Phi 6 0 1.000 Sigma Alpha Mu 5 1 .833 Lamda Chi Alpha 3 2 .600 Sigma Omega Psi 3 2 .600 Tan Epsilon Phi 2 3 .400 Delta Upsilon 1 4 .200 Phi Epsilon Pi 1 4 .200 Tan Delta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS 2 BASKETBALL QUINTET HEADS LEAGUE | 2/18/1928 | See Source »

...Defender is none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Coming from stock, known in Thuring-Tan musical circles during 150, years before his birth, J. S. Bach was the first great evolutionary composer of the family. Serious, systematic, rigid in form, and strictly classical in his compositions, with a profound religious faith. Bach was the greatest master who ever wrote polyphonic music. Although his age was a somewhat mechanical one, we find in Bach a great master of deep expression, often touching the romantic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

...song & dance to follow closely after the ebullient crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms frankly and disarmingly Negroid, understands the art of "living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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