Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City the staff of the U.S. embassy decided to present a departing" attache with a cocktail shaker. Ambassador Josephus Daniels heard about it, made them give a cigaret case instead...
Later, as he rarely does in public, George V poked a bit of fun at Queen Mary. "Shouldn't you have this?" he asked, pointing to a cocktail cabinet. "You might use it in your study...
...screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin, even...
...TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground for a stadium where symphony...
...Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed the part of yachtsman, he never forgot his main business: in spite of bridge and cocktail-parties and sightseeing, he continued to log; his 1,000 words...