Word: tans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though still bearing the tan of his Bahamian vacation, President Roosevelt seemed to White House observers last week almost as tired, harassed and supersensitive as when he went away. Three mutually aggravating circumstances had helped to make him so. They were...
...birthday his daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...
Reeding an informal request from University Hall, Tan Sargent, dexterous racquet-wielder of the squash team and intercollegiate champion, will not defend his title in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament this week...
...Bill and John and Jim and Ted-all those White House newshawks who are accustomed to having the President jovially hail them by their first names, were shocked at a White House press conference. The President began with the usual banter - about Secretary Steve Early's coat of tan acquired on vacation. Then someone asked him whether he cared to comment on the bill in Congress to regulate utility holding companies...
Jimmy Glidden and Tan Sargent, both members of the squash team, won their first round matches yesterday in the National Squash Tournament being held at Pittsburgh...