Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...
...Once upon a time life with the vitamins was simple. One drank pine needle tea (or vitamin C extract) to cure his scurvy. Now the average vitamin student is afflicted with as many alphabetical vitamins as Job was with boils...
...started five years ago when spry little Harry Evans began giving away the monthly Family Circle, which now goes to 1,477,000 housewives over the counters of five important grocery chains. Last week the 15,000 stores of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. became newsstands for an even more pretentious giveaway. From 215,000 contest entries A. & P. paid two women each $1,000 for the title Woman's Day. Mrs. Haydie Yates, who once ran a western dude ranch and became managing editor of Today and New York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve...
...sends odd catches to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences (where his good friend, Henry Weed Fowler, is chief ichthyologist). He is proud that a species of rosefish has been named Neomerinthe hemingwayi in his honor. His business trips are chiefly to Manhattan, where, shying away from tea-fighting literary circles, he sees only Scribners' Editor Max Perkins (whose decorous office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman brawl of last August), old friends Robert Benchley, Waldo Peirce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, few others. Contributor of a monthly page to Esquire up to a couple of years ago, it is said...
Declaring that serving afternoon tea has become too prosaic, the staff in the Dean's office at Robinson Hall now takes pride in handing out mint balls to itinerant afternoon visitors...