Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter Wolf Hires, 32, was named president of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Co. (root beer), succeeding E. W. David, who is retiring. Peter, whose father remains board chairman, is the grandson of Pharmacist Charles E. Hires Sr.; who brewed an "herb tea" of roots, bark and herbs, served it hot, and founded the company in 1876. (Later, it was served cold, renamed "root beer" to wean upstate Pennsylvania coal miners away from beer, and became, for a time, the biggest-selling U.S. soft drink.) Young Peter Hires left Haverford College before graduation to drive a company truck, became...
Nudists at Tea. "I had no idea that he had a leaning toward the arts...
...perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists-Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir. They were then looked upon by the French art world as something like a bunch of nudists at a bishop's tea. By the time Mette had borne her third child, father Gauguin had joined the Impressionist club...
...conferred four times with Chou, the cold-chiseled Communist. In all, they talked for 13 hours and 35 minutes across a table in Peking's Hall of the Western Flowers. A Chinese Harvard man interpreted, a few advisers listened silently. Thrice daily, blue-uniformed Chinese servants noiselessly served tea and cookies while the discussion continued. Only once, said Professor Ahmed Bokhari, who accompanied Hammarskjold, was there "a slight relaxation for about five minutes. Otherwise, the conversations were intense, earnest and continuous...
...only the beginning of Sir Henry's troubles. By slaying the dragon, he, of course, won the damsel. Lady Alisane, the dragon's ward, had been idly waiting around to be rescued, and as soon as the battle ended, she stepped forward and offered her knight some tea...