Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith rapped back: "This statement is false. Since the inauguration of President Roosevelt I received one invitation. . . . That invitation was to tea . . . and that invitation I accepted. It is the only one I ever received up to the one that came last week from Mrs. Roosevelt which was promptly acknowledged. We might just as well have the record straight...
Quickly the Jacobs family forgathered, jubilantly celebrated Christmas, birthday, anniversary, then packed their heroine off to Manhattan and glory. At her publishers' tea there Author Margaret Flint, swelling with pleased pride and a corsage of tea-roses, looked more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free...
Still more enlightening were the visits, made individually or in smaller groups, into the homes of several of the hosts and the chats with young French people upon common problems. At tea and at dinner the American representatives found their new friends as anxious as themselves for concord and amicable relations...
...Rukeyser, in her poem on the Scottsboro case, gives us her view; Hayes, who declares somewhat theatrically that he is a "permanent communist," gives us his in "For People Who Buy in Small Parcels," while James McQuail, who also strikes a pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories. It is unkind for William Carlos Williams to criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper reporting doesn't attract him. Poetry...
Other Dr. Pease "poisons": tea, coffee, flesh meats, vinegar, all condiments, most medical drugs, vaccines and antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed...