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Word: cocktailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFINITIONS | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Requests Other Student Publications Stop Tutoring Ads | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goodman Gives 70 Swing Records to Widener Library | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Lives | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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