Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small, closely guarded red brick and grey cement house at Nanking, her husband's capital. Why does she never join him in the field? Why have they no children? What is her chief interest? Impossible though it might...
...President Chiang in the march, she gently said: "Yes, I have often thought of that, often! But it has never seemed wise to put both our lives in jeopardy at the same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum rings, priceless jade earrings. When an alumna exclaims, "What a beautiful old vase!" Mme Chiang is apt to reply gracefully, "Yes, quite old. But that white...
Married. George Huntington Hartford II, Harvard sophomore, heir to Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. millions; and a Miss Mary Elizabeth Epling, of Welch, W. Va.; secretly, at Covington, Va. in April. The bridegroom's mother Mrs. Henrietta Guerard Hartford of Newport and New York was sued last fortnight for $100,000 by a Miss Mildred King of Boston who asserts she was hired to protect young Hartford from a New York adventuress and received no pay for her successful efforts (TIME, Sept...
Among rich U. S. families none is more secretive than the Hartfords, who control Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. A minimum of publicity ensued when onetime President John A. Hartford of A. & P. divorced his wife, married his wife's modiste, divorced her, remarried his first wife (TIME, April 23, 1928). John A. Hartford's brother's widow?Mrs. Edward V. Hartford?and her son George Huntington II got in the news last week. In Boston, a Miss Mildred King, pretty blonde, sued Mrs. Hartford for $100,000. Miss King said that she had been asked to woo George Huntington...
Tunes to tintinnabulate through early autumn tea dancing: "I Love Him. the Rat," "The Girl Next Door," "Not That I Care...