Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This reaction is due to the fact that he married a girl who dabbles in sculpture and wants something more out of life than the mere eating and sleeping" which the Hallams appear to get. Mother Hallam does not approve of this son's wife, her sculpture her tea gown, her furniture which "does not match." But the son's young nephew Jerry (John Beal, a capable juvenile just graduated from Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club) does approve. He approves so thoroughly that Actor Anders, on the point of losing his wife through blind maternal allegiance, gets...
...Forum is unfortunately not the sort of thing which can be reproduced wholesale. Its success has depended mainly on the interest of a few tutors and about twenty active undergraduates. It has to fight constantly a tendency to degenerate into an aimless tea party. Because of these difficulties, it would be futile to try to inaugurate similar groups in every House. On the other hand, the Forum has a real function other than those of an Economic Society or of the Liberal Club, and in other years such groups might well flourish in several Houses...
...tariff side Chancellor Chamberlain of course reduced by not one inch or penny Great Britain's brand new tariff wall. The Chancellor announced a new duty on "foreign tea" of fourpence a pound, on "Empire tea," of twopence a pound. But tea-loving and beer-loving Englishmen had also expected Mr. Chamberlain to cut the beer...
When Lee, Higginson discovered last week that it had been gulled, it suffered the most stinging blow to its moral sensibilities in all its 84 years, first devoted to the China Tea Trade, then under Boston's Symphony-founding Major Henry Lee Higginson to railroads and later to industrials. Its Kreuger affairs were handled mainly in New York. The partner chiefly associated with the Kreuger business is a physically big and distinguished figure, Frederick Winthrop Allen, long head of Yale's rowing committee...
...wide a variety as the main stores, have had to resort to samples. This second handicap Franklin Simon & Co., with a large modern building on Boston Post Road, a heavy stock of women's clothes and special features including a beauty shop, solarium, children's barber shop and terrace tea room, expects to overcome...