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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loving Princess Margaret marked her 19th birthday with a tea party at Balmoral Castle in Scotland while the Empire outdid itself in showering her with gifts and congratulatory messages, forwarded from London by helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Leisure Class | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Francisco and Seattle, where Wilcoxon made his first two-day stops, each group got the appropriate tea or cocktails, a recorded greeting from DeMille and a 40-minute spiel from husky, suave Henry Wilcoxon. The actor, who plays a military governor in the film and goes on drawing his $1,000 weekly salary while spreading the good word, promised them that the picture would offer not merely entertainment, but education, inspiration, food for thought-in short, just about everything but salvation. ("...A story of love and lust, brutality and kindness, despair and hope, strength and weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Deluge | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes and flasks, the underkeeper who combined the functions of guide with those of a minor and excessively gloomy prophet ... By tea time today, the grouse should have enough material for a short sociological treatise-unless, of course, confused by so many departures from precedent, he had departed from precedent himself and flown into the flak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sociology on the Wing | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...more unpleasant plays. Strindberg wrote straight historic drama, sunny fairy-tale plays and symbolic fantasies. But he is most noted for his dramatization-in a manner as unnerving as chalk scratching on a blackboard-of seemingly ordinary families in which hatred and insanity screech at each other over the tea cozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppa Could See in the Dark | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Milkweed | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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