Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring up the problem of getting more coal. Steet production and its offspring, shipbuilding, will soon feel the pinch. Supplies of tin, rubber, wool and tea, all normally shipped through Suez, will inevitably decline...
Charles: No but I will take a cup of tea...
...legs and breasts." For Kroll, who holds that "the human body is the most beautiful thing in the world," painting clothes on the nudes was the reluctant, if necessary, next step. The finished painting shows half an instep, no ankle. The result turned the bacchanal into a proper tea party on the lawn before Johns Hopkins' old "Homewood House," which was probably just what Bachelor Shriver had in mind all along...
Died. Arthur ("Art") Tatum, 46, beefy, almost-blind jazz piano master (Tea for Two, Wee Baby Blues, Sweet Lorraine), who knew and played classical piano as well as he did boogie, worked out a complex, polyrhythmic style somewhere in between, backed it up with a technique considered the best in jazz; of uremia; in Los Angeles. Jazzman Tatum slugged down enormous quantities of beer as he played, preferred to work solo ("A band hampers me"). The late, great Fats Waller once commented : "That Tatum ... is just too good...
Life in the dorms is not all work and no play, however. Each girl pays compulsory dorm dues, and can get her money's worth by attending the hall's social functions. These include the famed twice-yearly Jolly-Ups, Sunday afternoon tea hours, and weekly open-house nights, when the dorm stays open until midnight in stead of the usual 10 p.m. After dinner sociability takes the form of demi-tasse in the living room, with the head resident pouring coffee into miniscule cups...