Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cape Cod," continued Mr. Lincoln, "have always been sailors. It was a Cape Cod captain who brought into Boston the tea that provided for that city's famous party, and our navies in 1775 and 1812 were largely officered and manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that...
...Tea will be served in the Quiet Room
...every bush in Germany. German beer is poor on account of the shortage of cereals, but the bills of fare showed native wines at very low prices in terms of our money. The largest of the Berlin beer halls is partly closed and partly converted to other uses. Afternoon tea,-or chocolate,--has become an established habit, and at appropriate hours the tea rooms both at the downtown hotels and elsewhere are crowded...
...Zimbalist's music while somewhat disappointing was on the whole adequate. It is melodious but without pronounced individuality save in such special numbers as the song "A Cup of Tea", in the Chinese style, the jazz tune "Drop Me a Line", a Spanish song, the Viennese, polka, the dance "a la Minute" where their versatility and rythmic vitality served to redeem the music as a whole...
...benefit of the Harvard Endowment Fund. The management of the Union announces that there will be two orchestras; the Meyer Davis orchestra of seven pieces from Philadelphia will play in the main Living Room, and Spaulding's four-piece orchestra which furnished the music for the tea-dances this fall, will play in the dining room. The dance will begin at 11 and end at 3 and seventy members of the Triangle Club will be present after their performance of "They Never Come Back" at Jordan Hall. Tickets for the dance, costing two dollars a person, or four dollars...