Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of mine overheard a curious snatch of dialogue at the Phillips Brooks House tea the other afternoon. You know those teas--the ones where Radcliffe Freshmen meet Harvard Freshmen. Here's how the conversation went...
Miss Radcliffe '53 and 239 other Aunex newcomers will turn out for the first Phillips Brooks House tea-dance of the season this afternoon, and assorted upperclass hostess will be on hand to introduce the Harvard freshmen class. All men are invited to show up from 9 to 5 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Friday...
...cooked up an act. The next day, I pushed my way into a meeting of the Politburo ... I began to pound the table, to cry that I must ... go home ... I fainted. When I came to, Bukharin was trying to feed me tea. 'Ruth,' he told me, 'you will go home. We are not terrorists against our own comrades . . .' I departed the same day." Stalin subsequently had Zinoviev and Bukharin shot, but for other reasons...
...asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down to tea...
...verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced in a sterile tone. Professor Johnson does not go into the profundities of profanity. Treating it as a branch of literature and as an anthropological study, he has dug up some engaging data on its origin, its flowering and its decline. He prints James Stephens' poem, A Glass...