Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Premier bustled about Washington, Mme. Mendès-France was busy fulfilling her own social obligations, including tea with Mrs. Eisenhower and a luncheon with Mrs. Dulles. Wherever she went, the Egyptian-born Lily Mendès-France was an instant hit-for her piquant beauty, her gentle good humor, and her dazzling wardrobe of Parisian gowns...
...rare heroes. O'Casey can also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye...
...politicos persuaded Ali to ram a bill through the Constituent Assembly that would limit the Governor General's powers-e.g., the right to fire corrupt officials, the right to relieve Prime Ministers. Ghulam, who had appointed Ali in the first place, invited him to the palace for tea and tried to dissuade him. The tea, wisecracked one politico, proved to be "all lemon, no sugar." Ali would not budge. Ministers should be responsible, Ali believed, not to an autocratic Governor General but to the democratic Assembly. Ali then set off for the U.S., naively confident that Ghulam would...
...TIME'S drama critic, Louis Kronenberger. Since last season was memorable for many competent rather than outstanding plays, Kronenberger concedes that the ten best he selected were not markedly better than the next ten. He finally gave the accolade to four hit plays: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Tea and Sympathy, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Confidential Clerk; and to six financial failures: The Golden Apple, Take a Giant Step, The Immoralist, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, In the Summer House, The Magic and the Loss...
Bitter Brew. In London, Lawyer Sydney Pothecary explained that Ada Biggs had left her son, George Dodds, out of her ?18,000 ($50,000) will because she did not like the way he made tea...