Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweet Tea in Siberia. As a youngster, Fyodor was never allowed out with girls, and at his first sniff of a perfumed beauty in a St. Petersburg salon, he keeled over in a dead faint. He did better with the town doxies (later he even hinted darkly that he once raped a little girl), but it was not until after he had been jailed and exiled to Siberia as a subversive that he met his first major love...
Attempting to leave Czechoslovakia, the poet had to submit to a rigorous inspection by the Communists: "They came to look over all my books and notes but only the first in charge could read English. He sat down with my wife and myself for tea and apologized for causing us inconvenience. We had much literary taste in common and we discussed poetry...
...season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry's distant manner, inquires politely, "What seems to be the trouble?" The captain explains, and the lady is most understanding. Their eyes meet. She blushes and offers him tea and a sympathetic muffin-after work...
...painter (John Forsythe), who calmly sits down and makes a sketch of the poor stiff. "Next thing you know," the captain splutters indignantly, "they'll be televising the whole thing." He and the painter fellow mull things over, decide to dig the hole for Harry together, and-after tea-they...
...year-old boy. He died of a heart attack in 1947. Evelyn (who got very little of Thaw's money until his death, when he left her $10,000) drifted from big vaudeville circuits into the little "speaks," and from there into a series of petty failures-a tea room, a cosmetic business-that were interspersed with two attempts at suicide. Now 70, she has recently been teaching ceramics in Los Angeles...