Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared to place a trump in his hand. Having begun to receive Block money several months before his trip to Europe in 1927, why, he asked, need he have looked elsewhere (i. e. to the Equitable bus people...
Personally Kern is the antithesis of the layman's notion of a prosperous Tin Pan Alleyman. There is nothing dapper or brisk about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet...
...Tin Shutdown. The International Tin Cartel (Malay States, Nigeria, Bolivia, Dutch East Indies) last week decided on drastic measures to cut the huge surplus supply. Production will be stopped entirely during June and July, resumed in August at 40% of capacity. Or, as an alternative, members may reduce their output 133% for June, July and August...
...Korean on the edge of the crowd threw a narrow tin box high in the air. In an ear-splitting roar, the grandstand flew apart like a mechanical toy. Minister Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested...
...President Buck introduced the twelve Tin Pan Alleymen. Then the Alleymen took turns at the piano in the centre to play one of their best known songs while the eleven other Alleymen and an orchestra joined in. The dressy audience in the new Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom could not contain itself. It managed to listen quietly to Percy Wenrich play "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang...