Crossword-Solution: TEAS 4 letters, 563 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

They get invited to presidential teas, trustee cocktail parties-- anything that puffs them up, makes them feel good--that's the carrot.

Wines and brandies from France; teas of various flavor, from China; and rich, aromatic coffee from Java, all conspired to swell the tide of high life, where pride and indolence rolled and lounged in magnificence and satiety.

They are giving all kinds of little entertainments, teas, 'Olde Tyme Singing Skules,' amateur theatricals, gingerbread fetes, all for the benefit of the fund, and the business men, too--pouring out their money like water.

Her dress was of poor material, but aimed at being in the fashion, her hair was pretty, and her complexion bad; she was finishing a modest meal of tea and scone, and she was not very different in her way from thousands of other girls who were finishing, or beginning, or continuing their teas in London tea-shops at that exact moment.

That it should have been Selina, too, who should break out this way--Selina, who had just become a regular subscriber to the “Young Ladies' Journal,” and who allowed herself to be taken out to strange teas with an air of resignation palpably assumed--this was a special joy, and served to remind me that much of this dreaded convention that was creeping over us might be, after all, only veneer.