Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joyous Christmas season is upon us Yes, in spite of Lewis's talk on the impracticality of giving gifts, the majority of us are still ploughing through Boston's quaint little mobs to purchase them. Jim Grisham is still resolved to accept anything up to a Buick convertible. (tan with beaver upholstery and disappearing bar) without batting an eye--and the rest of us are of the same mind. So let yourself go--Merry Christmas...
Scorched Airfields. In skillfully coordinated pincers drives the Japanese sent a powerful column from Canton up the West River. With their garrison divisions leavened by 20,000 freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
...tan Chrysler coupe pulled up in front of the home of Mrs. Truman's brother, George Wallace. The Senator, his wife, and blonde, 20-year-old daughter Margaret washed up and had a little supper while they chatted about Chicago. It was the usual quiet Sunday night in Independence, Mo. (pop: 16,066). Few of the neighbors noticed the hatless, coatless nominee for the U.S. Vice-Presidency...
...seemed tired as he bowed over ladies' hands at cocktails. In the summer he likes to go to the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, Long Island, to dabble in the surf and suntan himself for a hard winter in doors. But now he was losing his tan; all last week Billingsley had been kept from the beach by New York's hen-shaped May or LaGuardia. On the previous Saturday night the Mayor had sent four uninvited characters into the lush decor of Billingsley's famed blue-and-gold Stork Club, had taken it over...
...despite his studio pajamas and poetic prose, Walter Huston as Ling Tan nobly creates a character in whom the greatness of a whole people sometimes touches sublimity...