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Word: cocktailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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German Lloyd's Europa, traveling first class as usual, sleeping under dinin'g room tables, eating leftover cocktail party sandwiches. Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive. He tipped the stewards handsomely with Editor Ross's $100, walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Homing Gull | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more ingenuous age was Frank's setting, and for him platinum blondes could never spell romance or contract bridge be the most exciting of pastimes. The New York Herald-Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...shining counter, and the White Horse chorus rises once more from Jake's on 43rd St., the old defenders can leap into action with a new war-cry: "We have Scotched the rake, not killed him." But if America's women hood perversely refuse to take the legalized cocktail with a dash of bitters, what remains for Mrs. Peabody? She can hardly be expected to find Florida still safe for the hundred percenter and the chocolate parfait, since Mr. Capone and his boys have a long established branch of their enterprise there. And India, where the cause has found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 12/6/1932 | See Source »

...Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...raise money for unemployed draughtsmen, New York architects have held progressive cocktail parties, poker games, exhibited their hobbies. Chicago architects held a studio ball with a nude young woman, at $1 a look, as one sideshow (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.). Recently the decorous firm of Delano & Aldrich thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Doll Architecture | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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