Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
When the Department of Justice went after the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...
...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...
After introductions, which included some comment or topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only get the freshmen into the civilizing habit of tea-drinking," someone was saying, as I reached for some sandwiches, obeying a primitive urge...
Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...