Word: teashops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives alone in a book-lined Chelsea flat, rides before breakfast when she can spare the time, puts in an anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and dines with politicians and economists, who admire her intellectual footwork without mistaking her for a heavyweight. She went on the BBC's board of governors last year and had to give up broadcasting...
Bully. In Bury, England, a tradition-minded bull crashed into a teashop, scattered terrified patrons, broke all the china...
...White Russian refugee, Huene lived in the Paris of the '20s. He was a movie extra, teashop waiter, once went to Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...
...Syrian millionaire, who left Amina so well off that ever since she has been living the life of a female Tommy Manville. "My Ahmed dearly loves music," she explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell." Every afternoon, the Beauty Queen dashed from court to teashop, turned on the radio full blast and sat yearning for her 35-year-old Iron Helmet Romeo...