Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That alcoholic spirits (primary cocktail ingredients) are not beverages but weak and pleasant poisons...
French priests were ordered last week by Franç Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris, to begin an "extensive survey" of the spread of the "cocktail evil" in their parishes. Neither a snooper nor a prude, His Eminence thus showed that he is in harmony with the great body of French public opinion which holds...
Count Ernesto Rossi of Martini & Rossi (makers of Vermouth, contributors to fine cocktails), arrived in Manhattan last week on business. Said he: "Americans as a class are not drinking people, although the cocktail habit seems to be regarded as a more or less desirable social amenity. . . . Americans [in Europe, where he has seen them] are divided into two classes: the Drys and the Dry Martinians." Asked by a reporter if he favored Prohibition, said he: "But for Italy-No. . . . We Italians are not blessed with the great sense of humor the Americans possess...
...chanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned immediately to the land which he said understood him better. Yet even Europeans failed him last week at the premiere in Frankfort of his opera Transatlantic or The People's Choice. The scene is a hectic, cocktail-mad Manhattan; the hero a politician who beats his way up from the ranks to the U. S. presidency and loses the woman he loves. Despite Antheil's claim that he is deeply patriotic ("in the Walt Whitman way"), that Transatlantic is an idealistic, not a satiric opera, it seemed...
...Press reports from Hartford, Connecticut, that Arthur B. O'Keefe, a seventeen-year old freshman of Trinity College, has been suspended from the college for what the authorities call "a violation of rules regarding drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...