Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
Howard has always been a tiny self-sufficient world, in many ways as provincial as in the days of the Red Coats and Tea Parties. While physical limitations will always prevent it from being a large world, provincialism can be avoided. President Conant has discovered the first tool, the prize fellowships, and a few figures will disclose their effects on the geographical enrollment...
Winthrop House lists its final plane for a dinner dance from six to twelve the same night with the announcements of ushers and patronesses. Adams and Dunster Houses join the Dartmouth on tertainers with the announcement of tea and supper dances, respectively, for the same...
...Geneva last week the Clark Gable of the League, romantic in his open-throated tennis shirt and Eton blazer at tea time, remained Captain Anthony Eden. This handsome young British Minister for League of Nations Affairs has been expertly cast by His Majesty's Government to play a role of popular idealism, Empire unselfishness and British solicitude for the Negro underdog. Last week "Mr. Eden," as the League's spruce Captain insists on being called, kept the Committee of Thirteen, the Committee of Six and all the other League organs created to deal with Italy & Ethiopia busy heading...
Continuing a successful custom of offering short dances after the games, the Gold Coasters will give a tea dance after the Holy Cross game on October 12, following with similar affairs after the Dartmouth, New Hampshire and Yale games. Admissions will be $.25; the dances will last from 5.30 till 7 o'clock...