tea-and-cards

Updated: August 18, 2026

"I should spend a very dissipated winter," wrote the vice-president's wife to a friend, "if I were to accept one half the invitations I receive, particularly to the routs, or tea-and-cards." The city, for a few weeks after the assembling of Congress, appeared to be intoxicated. But Washington and his wife were proof against the song of the syren.

Benson John Lossing - Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.