Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pisculli's medical kit were a hypodermic needle, a stethoscope, smelling salts, lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...
Died. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Sr., 82, longtime (1880-1916) partner of Bennett, Sloan & Co., tea and coffee importers, father of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp.; of old age; in Plandome...
...personal campaign for the gubernatorial nomination. His chief handicap is that he lacks the backing of the local Buffalo organization. In Manhattan he was given a dinner last week by the New York Young Republican Club at which he declared: "The American people must give themselves another Boston Tea Party and this time throw the pork barrels overboard." He flayed Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech as "so much flypaper spread out in the hope of ensnaring the vote of the discontented and the discouraged." He flew to Syracuse where he addressed a crowd of G. O. Partisans on economy, whooped...
...stream of time meandering through it, on which the gradually aging narrator is the central voyager. Says Proust: "Thus a part of the book is a part of my life which I had forgotten, and which I rediscovered eating a little madeleine which I had dipped in tea, a flavor which delighted me before I had recognized it and identified it as one I had once relished almost every morning; immediately all my life at once was resuscitated, and, as I tell it in the book, as in the Japanese game where the little bits of paper immersed...
...nation who was still confused, that there was no connection save a distant cousinship between her late great husband and the Democratic nominee. Beneath striped awnings on the South grounds were tables piled with a buffet luncheon-potato and chicken salad, cold cuts, sandwiches, iced tea and lemonade, six kinds of ice cream. President Hoover moved informally among his guests, eating a little here, a little there. Six Negroes, including Perry Howard and Mrs. Mary Booze, G. O. Politicians from Mississippi, strolled easily through the white throng. 4,000 Friends. After a quiet family dinner at the White House...