Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be delighted to devote my life to the pursuit of dirt if I thought I might be interrupted for tea at the White House, letters from The New Yorker or chats with Jean Kerr. Phyllis McGinley, typical housewife indeed...
...Algerian people, they received the news of Ben Bella's fall with apathy. Men gathered in cafés to sip thick coffee and mint tea; stores and shops opened for business as usual. By afternoon, soldiers with submachine guns had turned back to the city's police the job of directing traffic, and Algiers dozed beneath a cloudless sky and enervating heat...
Simon's workday is so individual and changeable that he has no routine in the usual sense. He rises between 6 and 7 a.m. in his house in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles, begins the day's first round of telephone calls over a leisurely breakfast of tea, toast and fruit. For Simon, the telephone is a compulsive device: he has four unlisted telephones at home, three more in his blue-carpeted office at Fullerton...
...from a Greenwich Village tea party to witness the grisly Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which killed 146 working women. She redoubled her efforts for the league and successfully pushed factory reforms in New York state, pulling working hours for women down to a then unprecedented maximum of 54 hours a week. In 1919, Governor Al Smith appointed her to the state's Industrial Commission and warned Roosevelt in 1929, "You'd better not let her get away from...
...most people, Wedgwood is just their cup of tea. The name of the British pottery firm, founded in 1759, connotes what Steuben does to glass or Gobelin to tapestries. Today Wedgwood, under the direction of the founder's great-great-great-grandson, has kept pace with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings...