Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to being tense, Cleveland's most wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt...
Flames, spreading from one exploding fuel tank to another, licked rapidly upwards to the ship's luxurious superstructure. In the grand salon Guy Arnoux' lacquered panels of the Marquis de Lafayette winning the American Revolution cracked and sizzled. An Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington's Mount Vernon in gay reds and blues, was soon so much burnt string. Firemen hurried aboard and hurried off again, intimidated by the explosions. In the morning all that remained of the Lafayette was a hot mass of twisted metal...
Composer Davis takes her new career as a serious composer seriously. Out of bed at 7:30 to get the children off to school, she is at her composing by 10. After three or four hours of steady work, she goes off to play golf, drink tea, cocktails, attend a concert. Husband Meyer she sees only intermittently because he is always on the road with one of his bands. "Isn't that goofy?" asks Composer Davis...
...extra tuppence on tea, sternly declared the Chancellor, is "a small contribution, drawn from practically every home in the land" to help pay for rearmament...
...House, although not a single hearty cheer was raised during the 98-minute Budget speech, promptly authorized the Chancellor's income, gasoline and tea taxes...