Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hats, Tin Horns...
...think we have given about enough publicity to "red hats" and "tin horns" of Roman Catholicism? They have rights, but should these rights be disproportionate? Is there not any room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given to one, [Senator] Bob Wagner, who has accepted baptism from the hand of a Roman Catholic priest [TIME, Feb. 11], Why not be fair next week and publish an account of the conversion of one of several Roman Catholic priests who have entered the Protestant Church in America? . . . (REV.) DONALD MACLEOD Princeton...
...while "waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry pays him too well. "Someone else will have to make up my mind," says Dr. Boland. "It's a hell of a spot...
...Egyptians were swarming across the Nile bridges and down the streets that spoked into the Midan el-Ismailia. Around the British Embassy raucous voices chanted "Down with England, down with the conqueror," "Evacuation of British troops or bloodshed." Sweaty, swaying bodies surged across the square toward the Embassy, where tin-helmeted Egyptian police barred the way with billies. The rioters turned back toward the R.A.F. barracks on the Midan...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...