Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which had puzzled the London police because he happened to sit next to a nervous young man in a tea shop...
...Cook Little, onetime president of the University of Michigan, now managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While the owners sipped tea and talked dog-shop, Dr. Little chose Watchman of Monagh Lea as No. 1 U. S. Scotty. This dog's value: $3,000. His prize: $15 and a silver cup. World's best Scotty is Heather Necessity, best-of-breed at London's last Crystal palace show...
Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
Birthday. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, tea tycoon, yachtsman. Age: 80. Date: May 10. Celebration: grooming his Shamrock V for the America's Cup races off Newport, R. I., Sept...
...caught short, the new vogue will probably not get much of a start. If there were nothing else to stop this demonstration of male beauty there remains the significant fact that the modest maidens across the Commons strenuously object to a show of hairy legs in Cambridge tea rooms. So Dartmouth will have its short pants, Yale its natty caps, and Princeton its beer suits. For Harvard there remains nothing but a little old-fashioned dignity...