Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
Sponsored by members, including Calvin Goodman '50 and Alice Dash, Radcliffe '51, of an ad hoc committee that worked with AVC this summer on the Wallace forum, the reception will be informal. Tea and entertainment will be provided, and all interested individuals are welcome, Goodman said...
Rambling through a novel of Ludwig Bemelmans is like eating in an expensive Viennese tea shop. The descriptions are like cups of rich chocolate, topped with heavy whipped cream; the plot is as easy to get through as the flaky Austrian pastry; but later on the gourmet may feel that the frothy repast had a residue that is unexpectedly heavy. "Dirty Eddie" has many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the sensuous surface of champagne, nylons, and silly, suggestive talk remains as lush as ever, and if there is any change from the old Bemelmans, it is that...
...first whirlwind week in Manchuria, Chen invited 100 bigwigs to a tea party in Mukden. While his notable guests were sipping tea, Chen made them a little speech: "You gentlemen here can trust me when I say I have never squeezed. In this respect-to make a joke-I am 50 years old and like the spinster who has gone through many hard years struggling to keep her virtue spotless and knowing well that relations with a man even once would have ruined her reputation forever." Politely the 100 guests laughed...
...game." Actually, the Varsity footballers get pretty much the same quality food as their undergraduate brothers, with a few alterations in the menu. For instance toast (not bread) appears on the training table. There is plenty of milk, but no coffee and only occasionally tea, while fried foods and sweets are also avoided...