Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew of the Shipping Board steamer West Helix smoked dried tea leaves instead of tobacco for two weeks. On a two-months' voyage from Antwerp to Boston, attended by gales and machinery trouble, they ran out of cigarettes and tobacco...
...Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Jaspar, to Milan, where he conferred with Mussolini, make the diplomatic smoke screen fairly transparent. It is the most unlikely thing in the world that the Belgian statesman came expressly from Brussels to exchange nonsensical urbanities with the Italian premier over an afternoon cup of tea. There was a reason, and it was to discuss the German peace proposition. The offer which Stinnes made to Mussolini, and which he discussed with Jaspar, was Allied participation in German industry as the determining factor of a new reparations agreement. A suggestion was appended that the Italian and Belgian...
...Daughter. He gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed out as amiably as tea-table gossip...
...uninterrupted study, writing and thinking? He would then have an opportunity to do his mental work when his mind was in its most active and alert condition. During the middle of the afternoon he might go out for his athletics (or sports) and have his social relaxation at tea and dinner. Then at seven-thirty or eight he might attend his lectures and classes, which with his laboratory, might last until eleven or eleven-thirty. His mind, when the flighty activity of the morning had worn off, would be more tranquil and receptive and possibly in an even better state...
Professor Reisner, in finding an Ethiopian script not before known to have existed, and in discovering such facts as that the Ethiopian rulers were all men contrary to the current beliefs has made himself an authority who must be consulted by all students of ancient African history. Tea-table tete-a-tetes may gossip of the Valley of the Kings, but scholars in universities from Heidelberg to California will speak with gratitude of the work in Ethiopia...