Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement of ten football dances in the Houses, will probably solve the post-game entertainment problems for most undergraduates. The varied programs to be presented will include tea dances, supper dances and one formal...
...ablest consular officers the U. S. ever had. He served at Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Tientsin, Newchang, Swatow. Chungking and Foochow. He mastered Chinese dialects, Japanese, Russian. At Christmas 1921 he was moved to Harbin in troublesome Manchuria, a consular post he occupied for 13 years. Never a slender tea-party diplomat but a hearty 250-lb. Yankee, he did business in an effective Yankee fashion...
...speech, he said in the course of some good-humored remarks that U. S. businessmen need not expect to do any more business with the Soviet Union than the amount that the U. S. was prepared to extend in credit. About the same time he also attended a tea given in Manhattan by Soviet Consul General Leonid Tolokonsky...
...samurai class was confined to a rigid pattern, from which deviation was instantly punished. She could expect to lead a sheltered life, become accomplished in penmanship, drawing, ethics, the three forms of bowing, the elaborate and agonizing rules for entertaining at dinner, the equally elaborate rules for serving tea, the subtle and difficult art of arranging flowers in vases. She could expect her parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother-in-law, to have no interests outside her family. But by the time Shidzué Ishimoto was 30 she had broken...
...princesses, even in their games, never forgot their rank or the distinction of their families. Shidzué's mother played the part of a samurai's wife as if giving a theatrical performance. Training her daughter in ancient Japanese graces, she made Shidzué study the difficult tea ceremony, saw to it that she mastered the intricate technique of flower arrangement. Shidzué felt about these instructions much as a Western child might feel about her music lessons...