Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1904 met in the Harvard Club in the morning and then travelled to the Nahant Club. The fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1884 was held without the benefit of sports, Instead the members met for tea at the Chilton Club in the afternoon. Headquarters for this class are at the Hotel Victoria
...biggest, finest, most humane zoo in the world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence...
...less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the firm that bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted...
...born Tsaritsa loanna took a few days rest last week at the comfortable summer palace of Euxinograd. near Varna on the Black Sea. But even on holiday royalty has its duties, and one of them is entertaining local ladies. Seated on little gilt chairs, they sipped glasses of hot tea and munched tiny cakes, which the Bulgarian ladies found "marvelous." Her Majesty smiled amiably...
...paper maker and a paper broker gave a tea in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for Author Hervey Allen. Occasion: Sale of the 400,000th copy of his Anthony Adverse. Reason: 400,000 copies equal 952,000 Ib. of paper...