Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tea & No Sympathy. Such detailed planning was unknown as recently as 1952. Despite Truman's budget invitation, his relations with Eisenhower were cold, and the old problem of "communications" between administrations was not solved. Still, the days have long passed when the outgoing President merely invited his successor in for a quiet White House tea on inauguration eve. That ritual ended in 1933, when F.D.R., calling at the White House, roiled Hoover's feelings by suggesting that the President would probably be too busy to return the call. Snapped Hoover: "Mr. Roosevelt, you'll learn pretty soon...
...second-rate life of a British African colony for the authentic glories of historic England. Alas, her dreams are of a "land that was not, that is passed away"-the Rupert Brooke-ish Lubberland where the church clock stands at ten to 3, and there is honey still for tea, where life is a vision of white flannels on a vicarage lawn, and the Guard is always being changed but never for the worse...
...inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody sneaks in the window and scrags poor nanny. The hero chases the killers to Scotland and back, the police chase the hero, the killers chase the heroine (Taina Elg), and everybody catches everybody in a London music hall...
Grinning like Peck's Bad Boy, Khrushchev banged his fists during U.S. Delegate James Wadsworth's speech opposing the admission of Red China. He found time for tea and cookies with Eleanor Roosevelt, played host to a clutch of Algerian rebel leaders and gave their regime de facto recognition. He put a figurative arm around everyone in sight, from Nehru to Sukarno, and whirled into and out of receptions given by half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted...
...died the other day; the demise of this lady high executioner of the uncouth marks a final expiration--Victoria is dead, long live the twentieth century. The time has come to talk of Radcliffe women being allowed to have men in their rooms more often than the allotted and tea-soaked twice a year...