Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...
...usual the King was awakened by his valet bringing a cup of tea and his more intimate mail. After breakfast he donned the scarlet & gold of his rank as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...
...above the ground in a sculpturesque attitude of repose. Except for his long-nailed right hand cupped over the top of a cloth-draped pole, there apparently was nothing to keep him from falling. Yet he maintained the horizontal for a good four minutes, according to a South India tea planter named P. T. Plunkett, who wrote an enthralled account of the seance to the Illustrated London News. Common theories that the trick is done by crowd suggestion had to be scrapped. Even the ablest exponent of Yoga cannot hypnotize a camera...
...discovered many a Soviet custom that turned his U. S. stomach. In Moscow, he says, it is true that people always look over their shoulders before hazarding a political remark; he got the habit himself. The suppression of publicity has resulted in a plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through them. When Russians make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay...
Before grey-lipped Neville Chamberlain took a little key from his watch chain and opened the battered red leather Budget box to announce to the House of Commons last month a rise in the tax on tea and another threepence to the pound of income tax, somebody must have peeked (TIME, May 4). In a last-minute rush British companies were swamped with orders for insurance against a rise in the income tax. Lloyd's alone lost over $500,000. The only people who see Britain's Budget before it is announced in Commons are high Treasury officials...