Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrating on you." The Postmaster General also scotched that enterprise. Japanese became best customers of another Neal brainchild, the Cartilage Co., which sold a halter by which runts hung themselves from ceilings to stretch their vertebrae. About 1904, Mr. Neal went to Europe, where he made caffeine from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph...
...effort to find the Lindbergh baby, bought the walnut armchair that was the hero's deck chair on his flagship the Olympia for $11. A moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter for $16. Speaker Champ Clark's daughter-in-law got an oval gilt table...
...TIME, April 29, 1929). Frederick Henry Prince at 74 is stocky, white-thatched and still vigorous enough to play a hard game of polo on his 1,000-acre estate near smart Prides Crossing. Since the Depression he has emerged from "Princemere" (where champagne is always served for lunch, tea and dinner), to buy at bargain levels the big yacht Weetamoe and Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" at Newport, and to sponsor the famed Prince plan for consolidating all U. S. railroads into seven systems. His favorite occasion for making news...
...that play. Mr. Bulgakov is also well known for his work at the Moscow Art Theatre. He and Miss Bruning will meet the cast and the director, Alistair Cooke, after the rehearsal, and then discuss with them various points about the acting. After this discussion, everyone will attend a tea to be given in their honor by Robert Breckenridge '34, president of the Dramatic Club, at Eliot...
...that Professor Copeland has read at Kirkland House, having conducted a reading every year since the house was established. According to his custom he has not divulged his choice of selections to be read. Professor Copeland will not remain for dinner in the house, but will leave immediately after tea...