Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tin Tin...
...Tin Tin originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
Next stop for astronomers seeking total solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...
...sidewalk corner. A " Blind" sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow, and play, as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois. How many, think you, of his applauding audience, as they hurried by, would pause longer than to jangle a few pennies into the tin cup strapped to the Kreisler knee? . . . LYMAX RICHARDS...
...Tin Tin is about twelve years old. He has been supporting Duncan since 1923. He has two puppies by a bitch a friend gave Duncan before Rin Tin Tin became famous. Cynical commentators have suggested that Rin Tin Tin probably "owes everything to the little wife." He lives in a wire training camp adjacent to the fine house in Beverly Hills that has been built out of his earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between...