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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams House will hold another of its football tea dances Saturday, after the Army game. Ned Marshall's Crimson Club Orchestra will play for dancing from 5:30 to 7 o'clock in the Lower Common Room. Admission will be 25 cents per person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 10/15/1936 | See Source »

...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks hot tea, likes to accompany it with thick sandwiches of corned beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bogie | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...brisk one-day session, the Convention voted to picket all tearooms employing other than Association tea-leaf readers, appeal to President Roosevelt to push repeal of state statutes outlawing fortune telling. Cried diminutive President Perota: "Legalizing fortune telling would eliminate the quacks. . . . Clairvoyants could be licensed. They would first have to show they had ability." Then for the press the convening seers prophesied: continued Recovery, a "happy" U. S. until 1941, a 4-to-3 World Series victory for the New York Yankees, re-election of President Roosevelt. At pains to be diplomatic, President Perota hedged: "But according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...program. Keynoted President Helena A. (''Gypsy Lee") Perota of Manhattan: "Fortune telling is not going to escape modernization. It will undergo a streamlining process. . . . It will have a regard for those who have practiced predicting in the past, read palms, stars, handwriting, cards, head bumps and tea leaves. But 1936 has ushered in a new era in the profession with introduction of beer suds reading. The results are as accurate as those obtained from other readings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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