Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princess Ashraf, sister of Persia's Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi. Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the insigne of a Distinguished Worker of Sanitary Defense of the U.S.S.R...
...through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
Last week, seven years after her death, Londoners saw the first show of her work. (Her famed brother, swashbuckling portrait-painter Augustus John, had helped promote it.) The sad portraits, flower pieces and cat studies seemed as limited and dim as reflections in a cup of tea, but visitors found them strangely moving...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America, largest U.S. retail food chain, is a monopoly. So a Federal judge in Danville, Ill. decided last week: after 89 days in court listening to 200 witnesses, 30,000 pages of testimony, and inspecting 5.000 documentary exhibits. In his 117-page decision, Judge Walter C. Lindley said: A. & P. was guilty of conspiring "to monopolize a substantial part" of the country's food business. Also guilty: twelve A. & P. subsidiaries and 16 officers, including President John A. Hartford and his brother, Board Chairman George Hartford...
...systems, will again find that the man who was unfortunate enough to be born to people whose last name begins with a letter beyond G in the alphabet is in for the dirty end of the deal. Since men from A through G only are welcome at the first tea, by Wednesday the women are likely to be second-hand and shop-worn; obviously, it is unfair, and absolutely unpredictable, to judge a Radcliffian not at her very best...