Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn last week, at midnight, Li Poy, 45, dishwasher, Hip Sing, was stooping over his sink in King's Tea Garden, finishing cleaning the scum from around the rim of the water. Occasionally from the dining-room came the sparkle of white men's women, such as many a wealthy tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater...
While the hostess decks your tea...
...Drinking tea, when I like...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...
...Long Day Closes," by Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Young gentlemen from the University of Missouri, champions at home, were not downcast when voted second best. They took a train to Washington where they were shown the sights, received at the War Department and White House, treated to lunch, tea, dancing, dinner. Besides Yale, which sang third, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Fordham, New York University, Middlebury, Penn State, Furman, Ohio Wesleyan and the University of California, also sang...