Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulations at present are a petty and annoying hinderance to the formation and continuance of friendships which men make with students resident in other Houses. The contacts made in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities most easily ripen into friendship over the iced-tea and the Boston baked beans. The House Plan recognizes that this is true, and throws men together for their meals that they may learn to know one another. The system now in operation, however, in effect limits the influence to the individual Houses, and may, as the House Plan succeeds, result in severing the ties...
...mental and moral education. At the University of Minnesota he earned a bachelor's and a master's degree. When Librarian Gerould went to Princeton, he sent for Earl Reinhold Carlson, A.B., M.Sc., secured him a self-supporting job as instructor in bibliography. At a Princeton faculty tea, Instructor Carlson lost what small self-confidence he had gained when he dropped a cup before the embarrassed ladies. Princeton students cruelly avoided him. He was fast becoming a recluse again when Student "Bud" Stillman found him sprawled on the walk, became his friend, encouraged...
...child, arrives hoping to find some solace in her brother's family. But Ethel and her children are worse than she had dreamed. Monica comes with the McKelveys who are just about to climb the canyon and look at the land, when solicitous Ethel insists on their having tea instead. Jed and Babby come late. Jed learns from Hertha, to his horror, that she is pregnant with a child of his. Dinner is served, and a long time...
...midst of all this quietude and grandeur ever and again he thinks of his followers in Cambridge drinking iced tea in the Houses and preparing in a desultory way for Finals. For them now he has a passing word of advice. It is far better to get away from the vale of tears for a period of three days on end, quite utterly away, with whatever sources of diversion is denied, than to moulder in the cool tombs of Widener or Sever for a few hours each day. For in the latter case the evenings are always spent at Wellesley...
...Soviet cities the State zagged by taking off the ration list Russia's beloved tea & cigarets, also milk, eggs, cheese, canned goods (except canned meat), candy, soap and knitted goods...