Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guests: At cocktail parties, don't burn up the rugs and table tops, don't slop drinks, don't stay all night...
...first intimation of a stiffer policy came when a new watchman, whose function it is to watch Hemenway Gymnasium, refused to wink at the students' time honored tendency to regard the 7 o'clock deadline for cocktail parties as a more rough idea of when festivities should be called...
...able, earnest meteorologist whose experiences include flying in Navy airplanes, dirigibles and racing balloons, taking part in the search for Amelia Earhart, furnishing weather information (from Lisbon) for the historic transatlantic flight of the NC-4. Quiet, matter-of-fact, Commander Reichelderfer likes dancing, music, an occasional cocktail, spends much time reading up on new developments in weather science...
...children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen cocktail glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which his heirs assigned no value. But they wrote off 27,733 shares of played-out Mount Powell Mines (Montana), $922.49 deposited in closed banks, six gold-plated collar buttons...
Sufferers from diabetes will now be able to take insulin pleasantly in cocktail form, according to the results of experiments by William T. Salter '21, Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry to the Cancer Commission...