Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Rajah Brooke left H. M. S. Kent the admirals relaxed by attending a tea for the children of Singapore Sahibs at Government House, then resumed their huddle. Broadly they discussed the naval situation created in Pacific waters by the fact that the U. S. and Japan are adding to their fleets even faster than is Great Britain, with a major "naval face" in prospect when the London Naval Treaty expires next year...
Prince lyesatu Tokugawa, descendant of the first Japanese shogun, and delegate to the Washington arms conference, called on President Conant on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and was later entertained at a tea given in his honor by Reger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, in the Masters Lodgings. Prince Tokugawa was accompanied by his son, lyemasa Tokugawa, Japanese minister to Canada, and by his granddaughter. Toyo Tokugawa. The Prince has already spent 25 years in the service of Japan, including four years at Ottawa...
WIDENER JUNGLE: Hard to get in and harder to go out. Not a night club by any means. Closes at tea-time. Rather bookish crowd. Rotten service, you usually wait an hour for what there is. No music, no rough-house. Drinking is frowned on, despite precious collection of 16th Century wine-cards. Ask to see the labyrinthine maze which lies behind the famous Grand Staircase...
...Being thus, as he said, "disguised," Pastor Henderson took to haunting Regent's Park zoo. Last week he again met a charming young man who had just been left ?400,000. His accomplice was nearby. They went to a teashop to talk things over. In the midst of tea O'Rourke (real name, Robert George) lost his appetite and began to run. Sprinting hard, the Rev. Mr. Henderson caught him three blocks away. Both crooks were jailed. Pastor Henderson continued his interesting and instructive trip around the world...
...neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time, Gene Howe gave a tea for her at which 40 of his Amarillo cronies appeared in frock coats rented from Chicago. She called him "the queerest person I have ever met." Three years ago Gene Howe performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing...