Word: oolong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although much has been done to industrialize Formosa, it is still predominantly agricultural, exports much rice, sugar, and tea (Oolong type especially). It is also famed for its camphor production, its headhunters. These live in the mountains, have made sorties against their civilized neighbors as recently as last April 1. But now a long electrified wire fence keeps Formosa's honest millions safe from the unruly tribes...
...gleefully conscious that the undergraduates of certain gentlemanly institutions hereabout have a reputation for being sedate and sedative in the presence of the fair, and for being given to pinks in oolong and underlinen. We are inwardly gratified that we are reputed to be rough in our ways, ready with our blandishments, and resolute in our pursuit of happiness and its appurtenances. Neither estimate errs on the side of verity, but to deny that we appreciate both would be to stretch the truth still further...
...away from the seamy side of life. Eugene O'Neill's 'Strange Interlude' succeeded only because of the unusual and novel mechanics superimposed on a poor play. Boston audiences are the most appreciative in this country of farce or pure comedy. I'd like to play Shakespeare. I love Oolong tea and. English muffins, and I'd rather live in San Francisco than any other city in the world with the possible exception of Paris. Aeroplanes are a lot of fun and I like war-pictures. I never read unfavorable criticisms until I've left the city where they were...
These were the outstanding impressions gleaned by a CRIMSON reporter from a hectic, dazzling twenty-minute interview with Madge Kennedy, lead in A. A. Milne's "Michael and Mary", current at the Plymouth Theatre. Between snatches at the aforementioned and self-same Oolong and muffins, Miss Kennedy, looking very much like her beyond-the-footlights-self, gave a running translation of her life, experiences, hobbies and beliefs...
...buyers from tea that is below standard quality and purity. Each year about 100,000,000 pounds of tea are offered for U. S. importation. In 1922, 1.85% was found inferior; in 1924, only 0.06%. Last year of 93,593,264 pounds, 0.123% was turned down. Usually Canton oolong, the tea Chinamen like, receives the highest percentage of rejection for poor quality. Damage and deterioration in shipping are important quality-lowering factors. Once artificial coloring was the chief cause of rejections for impurity, now teas rejected for this reason are mostly merely guilty of containing too much extraneous matter...