Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor dropped in on the Salvation Army in Manhattan-he in a brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...
...arrived in Warm Springs, a little less than two weeks ago. He had seen few people. A week before, he had received President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines, and had told Osmena that he hoped the Commonwealth might soon achieve its independence. He had looked drawn beneath his tan then...
...summer started. The recent outburst of summer sun (followed by the weekend's icy blasts, fellow rebels), brought out the "beach boy" complex in some of the unit. Henry J. Shellar (the Bruin) was seen sunning his tremendous torso last week. Max (the Operator) Richards looms also as a tan seeker...
...Staten Island. Bought with the $6,500 the Langs got for Grandma's house, the store was the biggest adventure of their lives. Until this point, Lower than Angels seems only another story of the decline of the lower middle class. But this store makes money. A tan, two-story-and-attic house, with its porch remodeled into a store front, it stood in a village where there were sycamore and elm trees over the streets, a Methodist Church where Marvin got converted in a whirlwind revival campaign, the drugstore where he got his first job. There...
...liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall tan...