Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Waban. She, being very expert, did lead me a merry chase; and did top off her victory with a most silly remark that, my best form of exercise was "jumping at conclusions". Whereupon I did wash her pretty face in snow and so to tea at The Cabin...
...From conferences whose aim was to find a way out of the muddle left by the abolition of AAA, President Roosevelt took time out for two gracious acts. He dropped in unexpectedly to chat with the directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding...
...eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before he became Secretary of the Interior. He bred it at his home in Winnetka, Ill., named...
...singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman's great-great-grandfather, and the smell of lilacs which Gladys Swarthout likes so much that she had it mixed in the shellac used on her furniture...
...have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...