Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackbirds Got a little dry . . . etc., etc. On the junket were four and 70 people, including four and 60 members of Congress. Senator Gore added that this party had not come to drink rye. But liquor was served them everywhere except at U. S. Minister Hanford MacNider's tea party. TIME gladly prints Senator Gore's denial that he rendered the last lines of the song, which ends: To Hell with Mr. Volstead And God save the King!-ED. Chandler, Ariz...
...crowds. At the toy department of Woodward & Lothrop the President picked out a gasoline filling station and a war tank. Son Allan (now in banking) handled the family cash. At Garrison's on E Street Mr. Hoover was fascinated with a miniature electric range, bought it and a tea set and some toy cooking utensils. Next day Mrs. Hoover gave Peggy Ann and Herbert III a White House party for 250 children who were instructed to bring presents. These gifts were rebundled and shipped to destitute miners' families at Morgantown. W. Va. whom the Quakers are helping...
...country-wide depression notwithstanding, the forty-eight members of the Harvard Instrumental Clubs trod the usual path of roses on its Christmas trip to the Middle West. A succession of Harvard Club luncheons, tea dances, dinners, concerts, and debutante balls kept the Instrumentalists busy and reduced the number of sleeping hours to a minimum...
...early and infinitely bored everyone he knew. Finally he was reclaimed, but not before it developed that Miss Smith had shot her French husband?"poor dear"?because he simply could not break himself of the habit of bringing not one but two of his mistresses home to tea...
...money should be spent, time should be wasted, energies exhausted, tempers lost, vacations granted, plan puddings made, dinner coats pressed, wreaths hung, the Vagabond is the quite sure. But one cannot analyze Christmas without becoming philosophical, and philosophy at such a season is like tea in rum. Nor must one be fulsomely benevolent. There are already too many Tiny Tims, too many Edgar Guests, too many three penny printed hosannahs. What then...