Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Lillie's high comedy is that she appears to enjoy her clowning as much as the audience. Her funniest sketch in The Third Little Show is enacted in a Paris dive whither Miss Lillie, a visiting Englishwoman, and a spinsterish companion have repaired for a cup of tea. In spite of murder and rapine which takes place under her nose, Miss Lillie doggedly finishes her repast, incredibly chipper even when a corpse is draped over her shoulders. She also obliges with that old favorite: "There are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...
...Diana and the Hon. Molly, daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living (i.e., holds appointive power over the position) watches the game. Tonight he will drink twelve whiskey & sodas with the vicar, perhaps invite him to Sunday dinner...
...Geneva keen, smiling Ivy Litvinov is a member in her own right of whatever Russian Delegation may be headed by Max. Her first appearance was in the days when Great Britain was represented by that congenital Tory tea-drinker Baron Cushendun. Stumbling with his tea into Mme Litvinov in the League lobby he once boomed...
George Herbert Palmer '64, well known for his works on philosophy, and a former Harvard professor, who was Woodberry's roommate at college, attended the tea which was held yesterday afternoon at the preliminary opening of the Poetry Room, and gave a number of books as a valuable addition to the new library. The handsome mahogany tables were decorated with flowers given by Mrs. Flagler, Miss Katharine Loring, of Beverly, and by Mrs. G. A. Sawyer, widow of a former member of the Class...
...Physical Colloquium, Monday, in the Cruft Laboratory Lecture Room, C. K. Jen will speak on "A New Treatment of Electron Tube Oscillators" and I. F. Birch is to lecture on "Concentrated Space Charge in Calcite." The talks occur at 4.45 o'clock after a tea served in the library of the New Physics Laboratory...