Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's perfect servant, for 72 years in the service of the Churchill-Marlborough family and at his death butler to Lady Edward Spencer-Churchill; of old age; in Windsor, England. Winny despised the cinema, often observed that he was thankful his mistress did not go in for cocktail parties. He died in Lady Edward's best...
...advertising has been directed toward this. Advertising in preparatory school papers, advertising aimed at parents, advertising about cures for maladjustment--all these try to make the business respectable. Freshmen are hard hit by a barrage of high-pressure propaganda from their day of entrance. Tutors, who now give cocktail parties, are even trying to make themselves social institutions. Their goal is to place a premium on indolence...
Advocating a bridging of the gap between prep-school and college instruction, Wolff's last March 4, contributed its Massachusetts Avenue quarters for a large and well-stocked cocktail party of Freshmen and their feminine companions, after the University had refused entertainment privileges to this group of Yardlings...
Watched by numerous reporters and photographers, the "King of Swing" formally presented his collection to William A. Jackson, assistant librarian of the College Library, at a large cocktail party in New York last Wednesday...
...authoritative Army and Navy Register reported that in port at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, after Caribbean maneuvers, sailors of the U. S. fleet bought $3,472.26 worth of native baskets, cocktail napkins, fingertip towels, baby bibs...