Word: tearooms
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...Light Burning" has none of the brittle, blatant sophistication of the tearoom. Rather it has a truer sophistication that is the result of the author's observation and sensitivity. It is a vigorous yet fanciful novel, with vivid, life-sized characters, ideally suited, with its chilling descriptions of frozen lands, for summer perusal...
...Bolinas. All that night the beach was bright with torches and bonfires, moving with bent shadows. Miles Pepper, 12, was the first in his family of eleven to hear what had happened. Father Pepper had just been dropped from CWA. A bank had just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later he burst back, shouting that there were heaps of the stuff on the beach just opposite the tearoom...
...Roosevelt: 1) visiting Orange, Va., lunched in a tearoom where the proprietor's dog jumped in her lap; when the embarrassed proprietor hastily called "Come here. Hoover!" Mrs. Roosevelt smiled, patted the terrier affectionately; 2) was speaker at a dinner of 500 women conferees on the Cause and Cure of War, told them: "I believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks...
...Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered three, the Post five, the News seven, and chartered a tearoom for the queue waiting to insert copy. Then Bonfils hired Claire Windsor to stand back of the counter in the Post Building and present each advertiser with a cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements...
Chicken thieves broke into Socialist Norman Thomas' chicken houses in Huntington. L. I., and took 50 of the 100 hens which Mrs. Thomas raises to supply eggs for her Manhattan tearoom. Socialist Thomas, who favors equitable distribution of wealth, put a stout lock on the chicken house...