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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unmentionable" had evolved a "new conception" of the bathroom. The New Bathroom is designed 1) to dress in; 2) to keep clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PLumbed Artforms | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...following Miss Bramson's. suit, Lee, Higginson & Co. announced that it planned to liquidate. During its 84 years the house profited from backing the China tea trade, was prominent in the development of U. S. railways, helped reorganize General Motors in 1910 and organized Nash Motors. Its salesmen sold over a billion dollars worth of securities, its distribution system was nationwide. Last week while many critics of the old house were to be heard its integrity remained unquestioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things were buzzing in that queer town. Former Minister Karadagh, recently released from jail, was plotting to depose the sinister fat eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning a loan. At a diplomatic tea given by Mrs. Early, Karadagh's English mistress, the boys met everybody, made friends everywhere. Mr. Jarvis, the capable U. S. minister, was especially friendly, lent them a legation car when they had to leave. In a mountain defile their car hit a hidden barricade, both boys were shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balkan Thriller | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...plan and marked a first step toward solving the same old problems that faced M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald last week. After a three-hour conference and a formal luncheon, the two statesmen motored out to Versailles, wandered together around Queen Marie Antoinette's "Play Village," had tea with Socialite Sir Charles Mendl, motored back to Paris in high good humor, dined at the British Embassy and left next morning for Switzerland on the same train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gold, Geneva & Lausanne | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...could hardly see the flowers for the McCormicks one afternoon last week in Chicago's Chester Johnson Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Colonel's Lady | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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