Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monsieur Boverat is not only Secretary General of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which boasts more than 30,000 members, but also Vice President of its High Council for Births. With his wife and daughter, M. Boverat stopped in for tea and croissants one afternoon last winter at the hitherto quiet, respectable Restaurant Bagdad. Little did the Boverat family suspect that the Bagdad's proprietor had decided to make a stand against Depression by the drastic step of hiring a fan dancer who had played in some of the hottest cabarets and vaudeville houses from...
...tea the President entertained a colleague from overseas, Prime Minister and Mrs. Joseph Aloysius Lyons of Australia, fresh from visiting King George in England and the Pope in Rome. Mr. Lyons' object: a friendly visit and discussion of a U. S.-Australian reciprocal trade agreement...
...Paris, M. Cedard supplied a royal garden party tea menu with characteristic corrections in Her Majesty's own hand. She struck off jam, thus making a double saving, since the omission greatly reduced her guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...
...reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...
...North China, abandoning it without resistance to a few strutting Japanese who had delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister...