Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well he smaller than I had expected. At least, he's not the brawny specimen of British manhood he appears or film. Rather thin and well-dressed, soft spoken and polite. A mild joker in a veddy British way. "I'm an absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather...
...India? You know my weakness for India? You know my weakness for India. Maurice? To be perfectly honest. I wish I hadn't read that book. Forster has always been a kind of idol of mine. I've always loved his work. I met him at Cambridge one, had tea together. Utterly marvelous ... No. I don't think that Maurice should have been published, perhaps just not so soon. It's obviously worth publishing, that's not the point." The point is, Michael York has certain set of standards. One of them is privacy...
...scavenged and couldn't bear to throw away. I met her once--a plump, stooped-over little woman: It was hard to believe she had ever borne anything so young and vital as Kitty. The mother told me how she had once found and entire box of Lyons tea-cakes--"and not touched, not even opened, mind you"--on her way to visit Kitty. She called Kitty over to attest to how good the tea-cakes had been, and Kitty bounded over smiling good-naturedly. "They were just a bit stale, but awfully good." she said. But an even greater...
...high point of the American presence, downtown Saigon and Cholon, the Chinese section of the city, were jammed with sleazy bars in which a soldier could get a drink and drop a huge wad of piastres buying "Saigon tea" for the persuasive and elusive hostesses. The new location could make life somewhat complicated for the 25,000 to 30,000 American troops expected to remain in South Viet Nam in an advisory and logistical role. The only direct way to get to the 9th precinct is by boat...
BETTY MCFADDEN, 50, merchandising vice president of Chicago-based Jewel Tea Co., is the first woman executive of that big supermarket chain. The climb has taken 20 years, and she says without bitterness, "I haven't moved as fast as I would have had I been...