Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
Evelyn Prentice (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In Manhattan the characters in this picture read Mr. Hearst's American, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria, take tea at the Plaza, go to Barney's to get drunk. Pullmans carry them to Boston where they stop at the Copley Plaza. Peppered with such initial bits of information, cinemaddicts may be pardoned for wrongly concluding that in Evelyn Prentice they are witnessing a new cinema effort to combine advertising with amusement. Such touches are merely inserted to prove that John Prentice (William Powell) and his wife (Myrna Loy) are cinema patricians. Since cinema...
...dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold a significant position in both America and Great Britain. Their common spirit of friendly inquiry and intelligent criticism should find play in such a contest...
...home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three tiny tea houses in the domain...
...Tea is not to a Grew Embassy what it is to many another. The Ambassador drives his staff, makes a fetish of seeing that they work the Service's statutory seven-hour day. Instead of "stealing" the bulk of his reports from his staff, an old trick of lazy diplomats, Ambassador Grew works up most of his own stuff, pecks it out with two fingers on a rickety typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple...