Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Porcellian has preoccupied Boston Society ever since Francis Cabot Lowell and Robert Tree Paine discovered they shared a fondness for roast pig in 1791. According to one story, a group of ladies were discussing Hitler over tea in a Beacon Hill drawing room when one of the ladies, mystified by the conversation, inquired as to the identity of Hitler. The other ladies drew back in surprise, and the embarrassed lady snapped, "Well, you can't expect me to know every sophomore in the Porc...
...Lynch is a realist whose election five years ago marked the end of the era of charismatic strongmen with revolutionary pasts-William Cosgrave, Eamon de Valera, Sean Lemass. Born the year after the 1916 Easter Rising, he is the Irish Republic's first Prime Minister, or Taoiseach (pronounced Tea-shock), of the post-civil-war generation...
...just in time for a warm welcome by shop stewards, a quick briefing on the takeover, and a noon lunch with the workers. He pumps hands with worried men in flat checked caps and tells one apprentice: "This is a grim time, lad." After a spot of tea and a puff on his pipe, Wilson climbs onto a chair and says: "I am here on behalf of the Labor movement to assert your right to work." Harold is cheered as he leaves, but his trip has not guaranteed him a hoped-for political boost. The latest public-opinion poll shows...
...Chicago's Midway Airport by taxi. Late in the afternoon, two pilots for the Husky Oil Co., of Cody, Wyo., suggest that I ask their boss, Chairman of the Board Glenn Nielson, for a lift to Cody. Nielson is slightly taken aback but finally agrees, and we have tea and cookies aboard his jet Sabreliner on the way to Cody. Nielson immediately sends me off to a rodeo. A nice...
...create a series of comic tableaux. Asked what they are doing, one replies: "We are waiting for time to pass." Another spends his time rereading his favorite story, the book of Job. In The Last and the First, when the put-upon young Heriots and Grimstones meet for tea, a minor Heriot says, "We have been looking forward to the day." A Grimstone replies: "We would have done so, but the faculty has faded through lack...