Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning...
...nights after the small, snug tea Dorothy Thompson looked even less the curt, mannish newshawk which some imagine her as she danced, in a low-cut gown, with Sinclair Lewis at a smart Berlin night bar. Before the week was out, however, she was indubitably in Moscow and remained there during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime. The exhaustive report of petite correspondent Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar...
...School against Frank-furter. Why should not a professor bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public and human interest? The result has been, (as most obviously seen in the English and Philosophy Departments) that the qualifications for advancement on the Faculty have been reduced to a tea-drinking respectability and academic propinquity which must needs exclude robust personalities and original minds with the zeal, ardor and conviction necessary to instill into young blood a respect and admiration for knowledge and a desire to pursue it for its own sake. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
...Each oarsman of the rowing squad will have a mother among us" said Mrs. Roger Merriman addressing the Harvard Dames yesterday. A motion was passed that each member of the crew be invited to tea where they will be personally cautioned. "Every one should guard against the horrid colds' and coughs that result from wet feet" she said...
...drinks tea with pleasure in Italy...