Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today. Dancing, as well as hurdling, was a passion with her. And she even hurdled over the tops of society's best ottomans and chairs, to the horror of maids and matrons more restrained than...
Less proficient players indulged in a tournament of their own. On the desk of the Soreno Hotel the winners' trophies stood on display-two cocktail shakers...
...reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes. The Colonel took the recipe to Washington, D. C., named it "the hot buttered bun" in deference to the late...
Likewise the stage has found that the public has wearied of cocktail-drinking damsels who kiss and tell their mothers unashamed. But not the movies. Still the stories come...
Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard...