Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terribly low as I walked back to my dorm, so I decided to try Room 13, which I had read about in "The Unofficial Guide." I think I was just about in tears by the time I got there. The place was magic. I sat down and drank some tea that they offered me and just listened to the quiet talk going on there--about the geography of Montreal. The soothing atmosphere warmed me inside and out and gave me a feeling of security. I felt much better without even opening my mouth. As I sipped the tea and collected...
Married, with three grown children, the Liberal-Democrat leader is considered to be one of the most cosmopolitan and widely traveled members of his party. He plays golf (handicap 22) and dabbles in oil painting. His taste for things Western includes a penchant for breakfasts of boiled eggs and tea with milk at his comfortable home on the outskirts of Tokyo...
...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...
...corpse. Walk into any Thropshire drawing room, peruse your surroundings carefully, and if they belong to a spacious mansion located on isolated and foggy cliffs, if the house is filled with unexpected and not altogether reputable guests, if, in particular, a wandering lunatic has just dropped in for tea, you will undoubtedly find a dead body lying behind the divan or under the sideboard. The laws of the country house weekend require it. The cast of wonderfully suspicious characters who have gathered in the neighborhood--the long-lost cousins and tormented heiresses--would feel cheated without one, the butler would...
...thankful for these outcast fragments of literature hanging from our tea cups, this source of guidance and thought. In a world in which everything is measured and monitored, in the complicated, often depressing world of college, "sometimes the best thing to get off your chest is your chin. "It's best, perhaps, to accept the tea bags for what they are After all, "A spoken work and thrown alone cannot be recalled...