Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also anxious to know where I can get a copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's statement: ''Every Mother Should Teach Her Daughter How to Hold a Cocktail." I can't quite see just what she means by ''hold a cocktail." Is it a test for nervousness to hold a cocktail without shaking? Will you please tell me where I can find the article saying "How to run a home on 15 minutes a day." Surely this must be an error, for I spend about three hours, while I'm home, caring for my home...
That citadel of vested interest, the United Kingdom Guild of Bartenders, urged last week that there be "no plagiarism'' of the "officially registered" Royal Jubilee Cocktail and Silver Jubilee Cocktail invented respectively by Savoy Hotel's Harry Craddock and Cafe Royal's Billy Tarling...
...Whatever other advantages it may possess, the new type of detective picture is at least likely to help eradicate from the U. S. cinema that traditional scene in which the comedy character begins to hiccup and mispronounce while gulping at his second cocktail. In Star of Midnight, Clay Dalzell (William Powell) starts his day, not with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem...
...suave bar manners are much more stimulating than the mystery which he solves in Star of Midnight, and it will be no surprise to the thirsty audience to learn that a barfly is responsible for the crime. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Thin Man, recognized master print for all cocktail and wisecrack crime cinemas, should find Star of Midnight an entertaining and not too sedulous copy. Good shot: Clay Dalzell getting gaily...
...trains of heavy trucks rumbled through the streets carrying shiny new bodies. Shoppers crowded the sidewalks. Department stores reported the best sales since 1930. Cinema theatres and night clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk so low it was hard to find labor enough to finish public projects already started...