Word: tans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt was scarcely well out to sea aboard the Houston before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman (Todhunter School) and Nancy Cook (Val-Kill furniture) rolled out of Washington on the four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation they were setting out to add more thousands to 35,000 miles the President's wife has travelled since March 4, 1933. First they scuttled westward into the mountains of West Virginia to inspect the work being done by the American Friends' Service Committee of Philadelphia among half starved children of mine...
...CHINESE TESTAMENT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TAN SHIH-HUA AS TOLD TO S. TRETIAKOV-Simon & Schuster ($3). Russian-ghosted autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic...
...shades of Ella Roole faded rapidly yesterday as attractive Mrs. Blsir Moody of Detroit, lightened the quiet background of the CRIMSON office with her youthful appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...
...sign on the door leading from the men's locker rooms into the tan-tiled swimming pool of Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club last week said: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits.'' The ladies in the pool were the members of that little band of champion swimmers whose wet faces and shining legs make a semi-annual fresco for newspaper sports-pages. The behavior and the appearance of the group remains the same from season to season; its personnel undergoes minute but steady variations. Helene Madison, who used to paint her fingernails crimson...
...Parade" I liked; among other things it demonstrates that the miscegenation which will solve our soft-pedalled race problem will produce a hybrid people of wit, ingenuity and capability not at all inferior to the smugly haughty pure Americano, and comely to boot. Point for point this black-and-tan show surpasses the usual run of stage filler offered in the movie mosques; this is said with full consciousness that "Harlem on Parade" is in places unduly dull, smutty, and often merely nerve-shattering...