Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highlight of the evening for me was Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
...from the Eighth. Montgomery attacked in the Montgomery manner. On a bridgehead across the swollen Sangro River he massed his British, Indian and New Zealand troops, some still bearing the tan of Africa and Sicily. Then he lined up his artillery. All one day the guns thundered; between breakfast and tea 50,000 shells gouged the Germans crouching behind mines and barbed wire on the ridge above the valley. Clearing weather enabled the Allied Tactical Air Force to help: nine waves of light bombers, 50 formations of fighters and fighter-bombers raked the enemy positions...
...still spends 16 hours a day in the shop, still dresses in shopworker's tan pants and shirts, still blows up in rocket-hot cussing over new problems. Of the $1,000-a-month salary he collects, he spends $200 to keep up the small cottage he and his wife live in near the plant. His 150 workers are paid $350 to $400 a month. Looking at the whopping $4,000,000 business the rocket gun is doing annually, Ted Nelson has no worries about the present, few about the future...
This is home, and Sam likes it. As he left the ranch ten days ago to return to Washington he drove to nearby Denison to board the Katy's Bhiebonnet. Driving in his tan Pontiac through the windswept streets of Denison, Sam heard the loafers under the broad store awnings call: "Good luck, Mister...
Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...