Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt prepared her first three White House menus-500 for luncheon March 4. 1,000 for tea, 75 (all Roosevelt relatives) for buffet supper...
Early this month President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...
When the Sea Witch was launched in 1846, she was the last word in sharp-bowed clipper design; wiseacres shook their heads, prophesied that any such ship would drive herself under in the first real blow. But old Tea Tycoon Prescott believed in her. He gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied...
...Arrow, the President-elect was whisked to Washington's Mayflower Hotel where he was shot up the back elevator and helped along velvet-roped corridors to Room 776. First off, Secretary Stimson, who had arranged the White House meeting at Hyde Park week before, was ushered in to tea. He stayed 70 minutes, emerged ironically to tell reporters that among things he and Mr. Roosevelt did not discuss were Prohibition and the Domestic Allotment plan...
...away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There was tea...