Word: sips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been decided the facial postures of Drenchers Litvinoff and Eden (TIME, Nov. 22, p. 21) are not due to any political, social, or cultural affiliations of either, but rather to the stage of tea drinking reached by each. It would seem that "Red Litvinoff" is on his first cautious sip from a full cup of tea while "Tory Eden" is draining the dregs. Let TIME'S Editor try and finish a cup of tea without putting his nose into...
Only a decade ago Sibelius' cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular...
...calm his jumping rage at what he considered the gratuitous insults of the British Government, the Duke tried violently mowing hay on the chateau grounds, soon gave it up to sip tea under the shade trees of the terrace...
...Germany today is the Frankfurter Zeitung. Its alert editors are not only internationally minded, but are constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a dream city where lovers sip their wine in soulful reverie pondering only how to please each other. We are mistaken, for last year 35,000 Viennese filed suits for defamation of character because somebody or other had called them 'Trottel' [dumbbell]. . . . These temperamental explosions cost in lawyers' fees and fines...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...