Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clair's will open a new store next to their present one in Brattle Square on or about May 1. It will be featured by an English Cocktail Room...
...examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
When you lean back after your cocktail, oysters, steak, apple pie a la mode, and liqueur and you puff away on a Corona Corona you feel well satisfied with life and not a little bloated. But you have really just begun your meal according to cook books of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries which may be seen by the undernourished and overnourished of our day at Widener Library...
...with introductions, letters, and complete formality. "One must bear in mind," she continued, "That acting on the legitimate stage is every bit as serious work as writing a paper." As a matter of corroborative detail she recounted in experience she once had during a run in Chicago. At a cocktail party a dowager under full sail bore down on her, snorting, "How things have changed. A few years ago it was the theatre and we . . . . ." then swept on her stately way, leaving Miss Rawls to draw her own conclusions...
...Kansas City-to-Los Angeles. He has flown 600,000 miles without an accident, still has a TWA job as reserve pilot at $1 a month, is afraid to ride in taxis. Asked how he felt after his first studio work day, Cinemactor Trent replied: "Like a cocktail that has been left standing on the mantelpiece all night." Join the Marines (Republic) takes itself much less seriously than most of it? predecessors in the recruiting-poster school of cinema. Told with an absolute minimum of bugle-blowings, flag-hoistings and en masse exhibitions of clean-limbed young U. S. manhood...