Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the compromise had passed a second reading-which virtually assures its final passage-in the House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...
...following plan was agreed upon, according to the Prince: "On the day that Rasputin should choose to come to me, I was to call for him toward midnight, and drive him to the Moika in an open car with Dr. Lazovert as chauffeur. While Rasputin was drinking tea, I was to administer a solution of cyanide of potassium, which would cause his immediate death. His body was to be put into a sack, driven out of town and thrown into the water...
...night of the murder a samovar of tea and a chocolate cake were placed on a small table. Dr. Lazovert, one of the conspirators, took some crystals of cyanide of potassium out of his pocket, crushed them, removed layers of the cake, sprinkled the poison, replaced the layers. The scene...
...subjects of the competition, which is divided into two parts, are "A Tea House," and "A Tourist's Office in a Summer Resort." The sketches are to be in water-color...
...This afternoon I am having as my guests at tea a number of high school girls who have won prizes for fast typing. Any one of them, in learning to be a fast, accurate typist, does far more for the community than a dozen Gertrude Ederles or Ruth Elders."?Winifred Sackville Stoner (founder of the League for Fostering Genius...