Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after. He is lavish in his attention to dress, complexion, repartee, new dance steps, light refreshment. The name which newspaper readers have sickened of seeing for several years, without fully understanding it, is thought to have originated in Washington or farther south, deriving from the species' propensity for tea, cakes and soda-fountain goodies...
...enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with its chief personage-usually a hawk-faced great-grandmother, who will offer you dirty tea and whine for a shilling-you will find that none can remember when any ancestor of the band first "took to woods." They have no legends...
...changes, the freshman week is least promising. The program for the entrants is a heavy one. Within the week, they are to meet their faculty advisor in conference and the faculty ensemble at tea; they are to discuss the question "why are you here?" and to hear old grads expound the college spirit and sing college songs. Besides, they are expected to take a psychological test during the week and to undergo a medical examination. Although the program has the advantage, now universally acclaimed, of familiarizing the student with his teachers at the very beginning of his college career...
Royalty Stirred. When His Majesty was awakened at Windsor by the telephone message which announced the birth of his first granddaughter, pleasurable excitement definitely ended his slumbers. Unable to doze off again, he rose and brewed himself a cozy pot of tea. As the sun peeped above the Windsor Hills, he went ahorseback riding. Soon he and Queen Mary motored to Bruton Street...
...Significance. Brilliant Gilbert Frankau, the author, intended, it would seem, to write a novel on a grand scale of deep British significance. Modern English landscape, modern London streets, horse-racing, prizefighting, tea parties, labor strikes, auctions, motoring?the story ventures thrillingly up and down the land. Perhaps most thrilling of all is the politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology...