Word: teas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abroad. Yet behind all this, one senses the thing that is responsible for the book, though not for its absurdities?the glamour and the mystery of China, that strange Empire, whose people go about the grave business of life with a ceremonial as delicate as that of a fashionable tea, and about the trivial business of death with a proud and rigorous grandeur befitting heroes. In so much, Mrs. Miln is successful...
Sued for separation. John A. Hartford, President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., by Mrs. Frances Bolger Hartford; in Manhattan. She charged desertion. The marriage of a year ago had, until now, been kept secret...
...where the temperature averaged 100 degrees, they finally reached the timber-line; and farther beyond came to the pinnacle-perched Tibetan monasteries. One of these, at a height of 16,000-feet, is the highest abode of living creatures in the world. Here the inhabitants drink immense quantities of tea, and here polyandry the opposite of polygamy is the rule...
Twenty-five and fifty years ago, on Sunday afternoon, when next week's lesson had been learned and tea time was still hours and hours away, all good children sat primly in straight backed chairs, reading the "Lives of the Sainta" or conning the dreary pages which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...
...ceremony was simple and unostentatious. Mr. John Templeman Coolidge '79, whose drawings appeared in the Lampoon during its first year, announced the decision of the Committee of award to a group of editors assembled for tea. Besides the money award to Saunders, a second medal, signifying Honorable Mention, was awarded to Lovering Hathaway, Sp. Mr. J. T. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders of the magazine, presented the medals on behalf of the Trustees. In his speech of presentation he stressed the value of the prize in stimulating cooperative work for the Lampoon by the editors...