Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party happened because the Americans believed... 

Figure 1.7 The Mad Hatter s Tea Party. (From Lewis Carroll s Alice in Wonderland.)...

Rutherford continued Schuster s practice, begun in 1905, of organizing short lectures and experimental demonstrations to keep people up to date on radioactivity. Robinson greatly admired Rutherford, whom he saw socially during these years.67 The Friday colloquia series continued to be frequented by chemists as well as by mathematicians. These were preceded by "an enormous tea-party, generally presided over by Lady Rutherford," recalled the physicist Harold R. Robinson. "I think we all felt that we were living very near the center of the scientific universe."68... 

I was inspired to try flavoring the shortbread with a variety oftea leaves. For Rulry s first birthday tea party, I made it with an organic rose tea blend. 

A chemistry laboratory is not the right setting. A woman in a lab is as incongruous as a man at an afternoon tea party.. .. If it is impossible to have a special female lab, then let the flapper vote give England a women s University.. ..3S... 

Among the tunes that topped the black hit list of the era were Louis Armstrong s "Muggles", Cab Calloway s "That Funny Reefer Man", Fats Waller s "Viper s Drag", and many more by lesser known artists, like "Viper s Moan", "Texas Tea Party", "Smokin Reefers", "Mary Jane", and the "Mary Jane Polka", recorded by studios like Columbia, Victor and Brunswick. Even Benny Goodman got into the act with "Sweet Marihuana Brown". 

I like to think of the day as a mixture of the mad hatter s tea party, and a trip to the moon. We were all still intoxicated at bedtime, whatever time that was. Had difficult time sleeping. If I were to repeat, would go lighter in dosage, I feel. 

The Boston Tea Party (1773) could be considered as a gigantic experiment to prepare tea with cold salt water. This obviously failed, but fueled Instead America s zeal for independence and may have subsequently also promoted Americans preference for coffee, thereby further contrasting their former colonial masters. 

Virginia Woolf was fascinated with what it meant to hear oneself say I am . In a 1930 review of a biography of Christina Rossetti, Woolf quotes Rossetti s abrupt assertion of herself at a tea-party ... 

Father-in-law John Wayles dies inherits 11,000 acres, 135 slaves, and massive debts that plague him to the end of his life (16 Dec.) Boston Tea Party... 

And democracy marches on (though the Tea Party may beg to differ). But can the safety and health profession truly build brand awareness of its values when so many arc undecided about which way to go ... 

In the months after Barack Obamas dramatic victory, talk of the fall of conservatism was common among the political pundits. That assessment proved premature, however, as the business community dug in, the founding funders sponsored a successful Tea Party movement, and the Obama Administration squandered a unique opportunity to advance a progressive agenda. 

Alter, Promise, 264 Kate Zernike, Boiling Mad (2010) Jane Mayer, Covert Operations, New Yorker, August 30, 2010, at 45 Kate Zernike, Shaping Tea Party Passion Into Campaign Force, NYT, August 26, 2010, at Ai Brian Stelter, Pundit Stakes Out a More Activist Role in Politics, NYT, November 22, 2009, at A25 Michael M. Phillips,... 

Amy Gardner, FreedomWorks Gathers GOP Lawmakers to Refocus onTea Party Coals, WP, November 12, 2010, at Ai Jennifer Steinhauer, Focusing on Next Step, Tea Party Rallies Congressional Freshmen, NYT, November 12,2010, at Aio. 

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