Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody in the Kingdom drinks tea, has been paying for the cheapest grade about eightpence per pound plus sixpence tax. Sir John added another tuppence (4?), drew from all quarters of the House pained cries of "Oh!" and "Shame...
...YORK--Madeleine Carroll, England's blonde gift to Hollywood, brought her classic profile to Columbia University today to find out why members of the senior class chose her as "the College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected...
...shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...
...summer of 1912, George Rixon Benson, president of Chicago's Benson & Rixon Co. clothing store, and Millionaire George Rasmussen, head of National Tea Co. until his death in 1936, made a trip to Wisconsin in a high-sided Stearns touring car. Every night when he shed his goggles Tourist Benson was irked to find that, though his linen duster had protected his jacket, his trousers had got thoroughly dirty. Tourist Rasmussen, however, had solved that problem in advance, had a change at the end of a day: his tailor had made him an extra pair of pants...
...pamphleteer Charles J. Moos '38 and a colleague who preferred to remain anonymous created quite a show at the Sanders meeting yesterday when they appeared with Congressman Bernard to advertise a "second Boston Tea-Party." Dressed in Indian clothes they led a nondescript element of peace strikers and Radcliffites into Congress Street in Boston...