Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cocktail Hour (Columbia) relates the story of an artist (Bebe Daniels) who wants to live "the free life." Cynthia Warren is first seen in her studio putting the last touches on an advertising poster while admiring friends ply her with cigarets, drink and music. To the telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information...
Someone propped up his head. St. Gandhi was able to swallow about two ounces-a cocktail glass full-of orange juice. He distributed the rest, together with fruit, nuts and candy that had been sent him, to the Faithful. There followed Hindu prayers, readings from the Koran. A soloist sang St. Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn: "When I survey the wondrous Cross...
...does not improve upon the play in this respect it has the compensating advantage of being able to show close-ups of Miss Crews's face, as it becomes ingratiating, anxious, angry, greedy, terrified and, finally, a twitching mask of misdirected lust. Good shot: Mrs. Phelps spilling a cocktail when her daughter-in-law says that she expects a baby...
...Oilman Harry Sinclair to jail. Her assistant is Sydney Sullivan, daughter of arch-Republican Writer Mark Sullivan. On lively Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Herald (Hearst-owned) is the highest-paid society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been helping get the Herald into Washington's front doors instead of through the back. Chicago's social press dean is Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst...
...spending the 33,000,000 francs, M. Paul-Boncour, an authority on propaganda as France's most expensive trial lawyer, listed other points beside the hiring of muscular young lecturers able to cope with the U. S. cocktail party...