Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he set out on a round of social calls. He dropped in for a cup of tea with evil old Mullah Kashani, spiritual chief of the fanatic nationalists, co-conspirator with Communists and the man Premier Mossadegh most fears. Kashani embraced the assassin, caressing his beard, and said: "You are a brave son of Islam." The two prayed while the teapot bubbled in the background...
Arriving in London, the Duke of Windsor had tea with Queen Mother Elizabeth, next day lunched with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their fifth wedding anniversary...
...invariably drinks a cup of tea on rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes...
...Queen Mary, confined to Marlborough House with a cold, then back to the palace and the big moment: blowing the candles and cutting cake for a dozen young friends. Along with the cakes were jellies and blancmange (which the host refused to eat because they were "too slippery"). After tea in the gold-and-white ballroom, the party adjourned to Charles's favorite playground, the palace corridors, and his pet game, hide & seek...
Last week, characteristically sparing no superlatives, Franklin published his autobiography* for armchair aficionados. And, characteristically, Franklin was far away from the literary tea set. He was in Spain making his debut as a teacher of young bullfighters, in the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, eight miles from the famed bullfight center of Seville. Franklin had patched up the local bull ring, unused for 25 years, with $6,000 of his own money to provide an arena for his school...