Word: tans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green tried dutifully to be a stock broker's clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs he has had published. Some...
...fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going away, and she laughed and told him: 'McTinley's toming, tan't have two Presidents.' . . . I went back to the White House again for the first time three years ago. . . . Downstairs nothing seemed familiar, but when we took the elevator and got off on the second floor I thought almost out loud: 'Oh, this takes me back...
...indeed are the aspiring playwrights who would not give their eye teeth to be in Noel Coward's tan buckskin shoes. Aged 33, he has written or collaborated on 23 plays and musicomedies since 1920. One out of three have been huge successes. At one time he had five of his works running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace. A few blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade...
This has been done by numerous writers at great length. Brief bibliography: Recent Social Trends (published Tan. 2. 1933), Vol. 1. Chapter 6, by Ralph G. liurlin and Meredith B. Givins. Thorstein Yeblen: Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904; The Instinct of Workmanship, 1918: 7 he Place of Science in Modern Civilization, 1910; The Engineers & the Price System, 1921. Frederick Soddy: Wealth, Virtual Wealth & Debt, 1926. Fred Henderson: Economic Consequences of Power Production, 1931. Alvin Harvey Hansen: Economic Stabilisation in an Unbalanced World, 1932. Paul H. Douglas & Aaron Director: Problem of Unemployment, 1931. Leon P. Alford: In Recent Economic Chanties...
...Coast Orchestra will become less of the "dance band" on the stage and will play several arrangements in a symphonic vein. Their selections will include two medleys, one of Victory Herbert and the other of Jerome Kern from the "Show Boat." Their other numbers will include "The Black and Tan Fantasy," "Mood Indigo," and "Sweet Sue." Under the leadership of J. L. Hutter '33 the club has become a more integrated unit and is playing in a professional manner...