Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks and his wife are divorced) invitation to tea at Ascot on the sacrosanct sod of the Queen's Lawn...
...rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death and destruction. And Algiers for days afterward a city of vengeful violence and riot...
Dialectic. In Moscow, the publication Soviet Trade, fretting that so few of Russia's young women these days can "prepare a lunch, dinner, supper at home, or even make tea properly," concluded darkly, "Inability to cook often brings young housewives many bitter disappointments...
...workers at its Seattle plant, Boeing Airplane Co. runs an enormous mess hall that concentrates on low-cost food (steak with French fries: 39?). Baltimore's McCormick & Co., one of the world's biggest spice firms, takes the opposite tack, with a wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen...
...first dated New England miniature (176-, the last number being obscure) was the small, three-dimensional self-portrait by John Singleton Copley, whose father-in-law owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted...