Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to Miss Gordon, Eddie Kane and Jay Herman contribute the most entertainment in a singing farce "The Midnight Cocktail," which was greeted with prolonged laughter. Other entertainers, in most of whose acts clever songs predominate, are: Will Oakland, James F. Kelly and Emma Pollack, Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich, and Bayonne Whipple and Walter Huston...
...these days when the well-known U. S. A. is "dry" (or supposed to be) it is a bit aggravating to have a fascinating French comtesse describe in minute detail her sensations when for the first time her lips approached that world-famous American drink--the cocktail. This tantalising incident occurs in "A Frenchwoman's Impressions of America" by Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Mlle. Jacqueline de Bryas, published by The Century Co. In order that a rising generation of young Americans may not grow up in darkest ignorance (and for that reason only), we reprint the Comtesse...
...tasted it and understood that I had just made the acquaintance of the cocktail...
...what I said or did, gradually grew upon me, and all the other guests were evidently equally well-disposed toward the world. The conversation was animated, in fact, very brilliant, and when Monsieur Tardieu, next to whom I was seated, asked: 'Now what do you think about the cocktail?' I felt more inclined to get up and dance than to give him a serious answer...