Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality...
...landed at Manhattan last week. His arrival from England had been well foretold. "Advertising Ambassador from Great Britain to the United States" was the epithet cabled ahead of him, and in footnote to the appellation was the information that he was voyaging to spend $200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
...Manhattan Sir Charles Frederick beamed sunnily. His face is blocky, cheery as a well-fed sea-lion. To admiring newspapermen he at once offered $500 for the picture of the oldest tea drinker in the U. S. He wants to compare that face with the face of Turk Zaro Agha, 154, oldest tea drinker in Europe...
...Charles Frederick's arrival was so blazoned that it practically obscured the arrival, on the same boat, of his chief employer-Sir Thomas Lipton, aging tea purveyor, sportsman...
Margaret, Wilfrid, Stephen, Mollie, Robin, Angela live in an English country house. In the beginning of the book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin...