Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass poisoning. Caldrons of hot tea and mercury chloride were served to hundreds of people. (The bell kept ringing, but this report took more than five minutes...
...typical girlish fashion, the inhabitants of the only Radcliffe Houses open this summer, left undecided the important business of just when the dance would be held. At nightfall, two equally-divided factions were holding out for a tea dance and an after-dinner affair...
...Million. Later, in Seoul, Boy Scouts brought us bowls of bitter Korean tea in General Li Bum Suk's second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
...have fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick bob before...
...food (provided by London's Childs-like Lyons restaurants) was a surprise. "Somebody passed me a plate," said pretty, petite Denise afterward, "with the words, 'You can eat this, my dear, it's real cake.' " A U.S. newsman who tasted King George's tea, however, "was compelled to report regretfully that...