Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication of unusual virility your article reporting the American Legion Convention was startlingly sterile (TIME, Oct. 20). Either none of your staff actually saw the orgy or they are all legionaries. Does it strike no spark from your terse sense of humor that tin-capped, be-goggled, middle-aged ''playboys of the western world" swarmed deliriously toward Boston to formally record in a solemn moment that they regretted the actions of local hoodlums? Coming here with one vibrant purpose, they fulfilled that purpose gloriously, overwhelmingly, only to then graciously hand all credit for the stunning victory...
...those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated world prominence. Aiding were heroes of three other Lewis books - (Mar tin) Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry (Sam), Dodsworth, accepted by the same vast public as typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy in name. George Follansbee...
...Tin-Pan Alley wrote a song about the Harry K. Thaw case: "Just because he's a millionaire, everybody's willing to treat him unfair...
Patino Mines (tin) ..... 3,840 516D
...find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said he was indigent, it was his first "job," pleaded for mercy. After two hours Mr. Prentiss, well satisfied with his "experiment," turned Faye over to police...