Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Paramount asked me to come, I asked why. They said, 'We want something different.' I know now what that meant. ... On leaving a California cocktail party you say, 'Thank you so much, it was so "unusual...
...wish that Miss Romany and Mr. Strudurick, as Amelia, and Wrigley, had more veuve. They both needed something, one cocktail apiece, perhaps. Mr. Cothem, however, as the inebriated Smythe, and he remains drunk throughout the play, was an endless source of humor. Amy Loomis, as Elizabeth Tweedle, his co-merrymaker, adds the crown of light amusement. Her sister, serene and reticent, played by Miss Ray; the pompous lawyer, George Appleway, played by Mr. Bowker; the ultra-coldness of Miss. Pointeyter, as the retainer; and the perfect butler, Mr. Lucas, are able and amusing types of the sophisticated Victorianism which forms...
...Bilgray, cabaret keeper of Colon, Panama; by David Hutton; for $1,000,000. Charge: defamation of the character of his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, famed evangelist. In honor of Mrs. Hutton's recent visit to his cabaret under the alias "Betty Adams," gracious Barkeep Bilgray devised a cocktail, published its formula, named it "Halleluiah...
...Dedicating their cellars, their kidneys to the cause, 16 architects went to a cocktail party at Mr. Urban's studio. Each guest was expected to pay $2, and promise to give another cocktail party in his home or office and invite twelve paying guests. Each of the twelve must invite eight, each of the eight, four-by which time 7,921 people will have contributed $15,842 to benefit the 1,700 draughtsmen, drunk approximately 31,-684 cocktails to the benefit of 1,536 bootleggers, eaten approximately 180 Ibs. of caviar to the benefit of the Union of Socialist...
...court bluntly named as villains the vermouth manufacturing firms of Cinzano, Cora, Gancia, forbade them to manufacture any bottled cocktails labeled MARTINI COCKTAIL or AMERICAN MARTINI COCKTAIL, made them pay the expenses of the trial and appeal, and ordered them to publish advertisements in ten papers to be chosen by triumphant Martini & Rossi, admitting their guilt...