Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eardrums. You radio-for another drink to restore your nerve and try again. This time she is more responsive. She looks your way and turns on her transmitter. She has lovely eyes. By this time she is putting out so many watts that your antenna is getting a sun tan. She wants you to come over and sit with her. You get up and come in on the beam...
...most successful ballet season in U.S. history ended last week at Manhat tan's Metropolitan Opera House. Impre sario Sol Hurok's Ballet Theatre, during a six weeks' run, had attracted 150,000 beholders for a gross of approximately...
...Square subways like pilgrims bound for Mecca. Most of them were children. Some were draped to the bricks in green porkpie hats, sharp canary-yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...
Ellingtonia (Duke Ellington and his band; Brunswick; 8 sides). An anthology of some of Ellington's earlier, and most warm-spirited, recordings. Included: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo; Rockin' in Rhythm; Black & Tan Fantasy; Mood Indigo...
...chosen the night before would be heard by the world. On the speaker's platform were turbaned Arab leaders and the U.S. and British Ministers, Robert Murphy and Harold Macmillan, instruments of pressure for the liberalization of the Giraud regime. Freshly barbered, bayonet-straight in a tan uniform with five stars twinkling on each sleeve, Giraud strode to the platform. Green-bereted members of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse swung bugles high and blasted a march tune in his honor...