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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant will also be at home Sunday, April 30, and this will be the last tea of the year for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANTS AT HOME | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

...river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

...absence of Mrs. Roosevelt (who last week attended San Francisco's World's Fair) the land's No. 2 Lady, Mrs. John Nance Garner, had the experience of presiding over a White House tea party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mouthful | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...throne room. Its hero comes home on his wife's birthday, gives her a present, discovers a letter from her lover, pulls a pistol, shoots her. While two ambulance surgeons carry out the body, he moans that life means nothing more to him, gulps a cup of tea and jumps out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palindrome Opera | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...helped Conrad, Arnold Bennett and D. H. Lawrence cut their publishing teeth, Eric Pinker took over his family's lucrative U. S. business in 1930. Since then he and his partner-wife, Actress Adrienne Morrison (mother of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett), have captivated many a literary tea. Shocking it was, therefore, when angry old Author Oppenheim accused Eric Pinker of withholding $21,000 owed him for U. S. publication of his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sleuth to Sleuth | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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