Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volunteer British Army has long had trouble getting enough healthy, sturdy recruits. Having lowered the physical requirements, Army officials last week reported the successful results of an experiment to feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish...
First stop was Washington. There the 520 student junketeers had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, kissed (without relish) Congressmen and Vice President Garner, and danced with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...
...team of Australian debaters who declared that there had been no good tea in America since the Boston Tea Party, defended the affirmative of the subject, "Resolved: That the British Empire must disintegrate," against a Debating Council team composed of Henry D. Oyen '41 and James J. Pattee '41 in the Adams House Common Room Saturday night...
...France combined; if Germany's monthly output was greater in almost the same proportion; and if, at the same time, England had plans to double her fleet and equal Germany in planes and military equipment by 1912--then Chamberlain did not "sell the British Empire for a cup of tea." Germany soon found that, because of the predominantly industrial character of the Sudetenland, her dependence on outside food resources had increased nearly 30 per cent.' Time is on the side of the democracies...
...publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet of shiny big cars for his three children. Any suggestion of economy he took as a slur on his literary abilities...