Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little party moved off beneath a new Communist victory arch to three conference tents at the end of the runway. The Communists offered the Frenchmen tea with sugar, and Lucky Strikes. "They were very polite," said the helicopter pilot. "All they wanted was to be treated as soldiers according to their rank. But we didn't think very much about anything. The whole place was as silent as a graveyard, and when the wind kicked up, we could smell the death around...
...John Patrick's Teahouse of the August Moon (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...
...weeks ago a group of Cambridge ladies gathered at Phillips Brooks House for tea, but they didn't discuss spring fashions or the price of eggs. The PBH Housing Registry was trying to persuade these women, all of them landladies listed by the Registry, not to discriminate against minority groups. Despite such praiseworthy efforts to convince the proprietors they should fulfill their non-discrimination agreement with PBH, many have failed to cooperate. They list the prices of their rooms with PBH, but they may still raise the rent for Negro students, or tell them they have no vacancies, without openly...
...high order of scholarship. Most members take this quite seriously. One Junior Fellow, breaking his all-day routine at the biological labs, came home at eleven one morning to find a gathering of maids in his room. Five of them, sitting on his bed were having their daily tea party, confident that his devotion to biology would keep the coast clear...
...High Tea. In Washington, D.C., questioning James Morgan in his home about a robbery, the cops spotted a tea kettle on the stove, lifted the lid and found $650 in the boiling water...