Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator George William Norris of Nebraska: "They are all trying to blame this...
...week for the first time they were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over the prisoners' box were changed every 30 minutes of the otherwise leisurely proceedings. There were the usual tall glasses of smoking hot tea without which ponderous Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky could never have got through all the years in which they have gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice...
...would have been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water for the tea...
...attempt to push our own brands," said swarthy President John Hartford of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. in 1930. "We leave it to our customers to buy what they want. Of all the food products we handle, only 10% comprise private brands which may be regarded as strictly competitive with national labels...
...your best, young man,' he said. 'I am satisfied with you, only go to church often, and do not drink vodka. Breathe at me!' I did. Suvorin, not noticing any vodka odor, turned and called 'Boy!' A boy appeared and was ordered to bring tea and a few lumps of sugar. After this the respectable Mr. Suvorin gave me money and said: 'One has to be careful with money...