Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROYAL FAMILY-Tea and temperament as a stage dynasty gets through the daily job of living (TIME...
Many a U. S. town too small to belong to the Kiwanis International is large enough to have its own luncheon club of town merchants. Many such clubs look with alarm at the entrance of the first Atlantic & Pacific Tea store, the first Woolworth or the first Liggett. Alarm among luncheon club members increased last week when they learned that there was another invasion to fear. Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name...
...dealer in "putrid books for the putrid minded" is precisely the same in the eyes of Mr. Sterling as a dealer who sells typhus-filled milk. Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute...
...special car rolled into Washington D. C. and on it Pianist Ignace Paderewski. He lunched at the White House with other distinguished Poles, strummed on the Blue Room piano, had some tea, returned to his private car. Other eminent callers of the week included Harvey S. Firestone (rubber), William Morgan Butler (politics...
...connoiseurs in this country are competent to declare on the authenticity of certain potteries which bear the signature of the great Kenzan, who dashed a playful brush over so many tea bowls and cake dishes and who lacquered and painted and carved in wood. It has proved distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some...