Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years ago failed. Almost as delectable as Bovril are such Bovril puns as, "When it's in you-it's sinew!" or, "Don't let him-Mrs. Bovril." Bovril slogans can be didactic ("Bovril puts beef into you"), appositive ("The world-famous beef-tea"), enticing ("Bovril tickles the palate"), or purely comic ("Take Bovril and keep up to Pa," with a picture of a small boy standing on a bottle of Bovril). Competing beef extracts-like Oxo, which comes in cubes, Lemco, in crocks, or Beefex-have never endangered Bovril's prestige. Hitherto, Bovril sales...
...much-dreaded "exam" period will start for Wellesley girls Tuesday and continue two weeks. Authorities are planning diversions during this period. Each dormitory, for instance, will serve soup, tea, and crackers at 9.30 o'clock each night, and will have afternoon tea for residents at least twice a week. The Juniors will have their annual tea dance for the freshmen after the freshman English composition examination Friday. Juniors say that only girls with ink-stained fingers and "exam" clothes will be admitted to the tea...
...Theodore Jan Prichard 1G of Thief River Falls, Minn., was the recipient of the first medal, while H. A. Lawrence of M. I. T. was awarded the second. Clark's drawing was characterized by a portico of brilliant red columns, lending a warm atmosphere to the combined swimming pool, tea-room, and dance floor...
...nine, spent a whirlwind week in London before going to Paris in their tour of European capitals. The imperial children, neither of whom speaks English, went to Sandringham to have luncheon with King George & Queen Mary and to deliver the greetings of their father, Emperor Haile Selassie, They took tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury and stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth of jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen...
...Barry is a product of what was called the Yale Literary Renaissance, a microscopic affair which began vigorously with Stephen Vincent Benet, John Farrar, Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced...