Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the founding of the Houses, when most of her kind were selling china bowls in summer tea-rooms or setting permanents in bustling beauty parlors, this lady stayed for from the madding throng, engaged in no less worthy a profession than that of undertaker. It was nice work, if you could get it, she often says, and even now she finds it impossible to break with the past. Her most treasured possession from the dear, dead days is her embalmer's license, which she faithfully renews every time it expires. When asked why, she replies wistfully, "Just sentiment...
...perilous jobs as disguising himself as a British officer. He had to change his name often. Once, when his alias was Gallagher, the friendly countrymen called him Kelly, thinking his name might really be Gallagher. Worst thing about his hunted life was the food: everlasting bacon & cabbage, and "strong tea that a mouse could trot...
...this shrewdly cast and skillfully acted show, Mrs. Murray puts a world of feeling into her comment, as she morosely carries out the tea things: "G -d- sex, anyway...
...unique feature on the program this year will be a meeting of the Governing Board of the International Labor Organization on the morning of the second day of the session. The ceremonies will end that afternoon with a tea dance sponsored by Radcliffe from 4 to 7 o'clock...
Ambassador von Ribbentrop did net hurry in August to his new post. In early October he was still in Berlin and 17 visiting members of the French Chamber of Deputies cornered him at a tea with this question: "Can you assure us that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special...