Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London Symphony Orchestra and a white-robed choir played and sang American music, classical and Tin Pan Alley. Then Ambassador Winant, austere in striped trousers, his usually rumpled hair combed and glistening, moved to the podium. He spoke in his softly earnest tones: "Grant us brotherhood not for this day only, but for the years to come...
...Representative from Washington State's First District is young Hugh De Lacy, 34, ex-college instructor and left-winger, who once called the draft a "fascist-like measure." Now a shipyard worker, De Lacy methodically changed clothes after work each day to campaign, because, he said, dungarees and tin hat "limit your appeal...
...vicar of Ipswich's St. Nicholas' Church. Wrote he: "Having seen your tenderhearted request for comforts for the blasphemers of God and butchers of men, I herewith send a small comfort which I am sure will be good for them. . . ." The Vicar's contribution was a tin of rat poison...
...Nobile. Nobile had been combing remote districts of South America for years, picking up scraps of primitive music and processing them into tunes for the swank dance halls of Buenos Aires. By last week his adaptation of Santa Marta had broken the sheet-music records of Buenos Aires' Tin Pan Alley...
Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...