Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to many private dinners in all parts of the country, and with only one exception-in Chicago-I never saw a prohibition table. I went to cocktail parties attended by State officials, United States legislators, judges, college presidents, by-it seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will...
...significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English or Dutch gin as a favorite cocktail ingredient. Today one may step up to any smart bar and obtain deft action...
Philip Barry wrote Paris Bound, a light cocktail of adultery and wit; like that fine play, Holiday begins frivolously. The situation: a girl, Julia Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used...
...Vagabond is afflicted with a conscience that every year has sent him rushing back to stores on December twenty-fourth and a half to exchange Cousin Ned's pipe for a cocktail shaker on receipt of the news that Aunt Alice is going to try having him swear off on smoking instead of drinking this New Year. This time he has been more provident, however, and was careful to select a store that made a conspicuous display of its "No Credits or Exchanges" sign that was reassuring in its finality. For once he is prepared to enjoy the days preceding...
...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...