Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the living room of the Harvard Union there will be held a University Tea. The tea is to be given especially for the members of the Division of Ancient Languages, The Division of Modern Languages including departments of English, Germanic and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Division of Semitic Languages and History, the Division of Music, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Concentration Field of History and Literature, Chinese, Egyptology, and Slavic, but all officers of the University and their wives, and all students are cordially invited to be present...
...exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence (TIME, Jan. 13). It was in March that he marched to the sea to defy Britain's salt tax as some New Englanders once defied a British tea tax. It was in May that Britain jailed Gandhi at Poona. Last week he was still there, and some 30,000 members of his Independence movement were caged elsewhere. The British Empire was still wondering fearfully what to do about them all, the Empire's most staggering problem...
Snappiest, most widely printed anecdote of the year about Signore Benito Mussolini was the tale of how he was recently "enticed" to the U. S. Embassy for tea by Mrs. John Work Garrett, greeted by Ambassador Garrett carrying a loaded pistol to protect the Dictator's life...
...trusted butler" had been given the afternoon off, lest one of them assassinate Il Duce. To the Ambassador and Mrs. Garrett a friend sent humorous congratulations (for the point of the story was supposed to be that Il Duce had never before humored an Embassy hostess by a tea call). Came from Rome last week this cabled reply: EXCEPT FOR REVOLVERS RISKS SERVANTS SECRETARIES POTTED PALMS CORNERS AND SIX-SHOOTERS THE ARTICLE IS A TISSUE OF TRUTH STOP MERRY CHRISTMAS. JOHN AND ALICE GARRETT...
...Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the eight engineers accused of plotting with prominent foreigners (see p. 20) and specifically with the French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour how extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were...