Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation was doing wonders for the President, said White House Physician Graham. After the first week of it, Harry Truman was tan, fit and relaxed. His weight was at a perfect 176 Ibs. He was in fighting trim, and judging by the week's news in the Senate, he would need...
...cane, and sat down at another microphone. (Mr. Weeks had explained that Sir Osbert had water-on-the-knee.) He was clad merely in tuxedo and looked very prosperous, distinguished, and glowing. (The Sitwells had just returned from Florida, but only the brother showed a tan.) Sir Osbert read some of his poems--character sketches, they are--and proved himself to be an amusing and more lucid poet than his sister...
Braque's Painter and Model (1939) was a more ambitious essay in shadow and substance. The black and tan model and black and grey artist-who, unlike clean-shaven, square-cut Braque, sported a spade beard and cheroot-both wavered in uncertain silhouette against the grey and yellow wallpaper. At one moment the figures seemed thin as cardboard; at another they became block-solid...
Khaki Shirts & Candor. They landed at Washington's National Airport wearing black suits, khaki Army shirts, tan Army shoes, bluish felt hats and the look of men who will not be taken in by city slickers. They smiled and nodded happily when they were told to form their own opinions and to have no fear of frankness, but it soon developed that the advice was unnecessary. They were men of imposing candor...
...will be wearing by September 1950. A natty slate blue (47 other shades of blue were rejected), with light blue shirt and dark blue tie, it is slightly darker than the R.A.F. model, sports new silver buttons and a black-visored cap instead of the traditional gold metal and tan leather. The other major change: inverted chevrons sprouting upwards from an Air Force star, the first upswept insigne for U.S. noncoms since the Spanish-American...