Word: cocktailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, in corridors and cloakrooms, at cocktail parties and committee hearings, Washington has been talking about three "baskets." These "baskets" were neither wicker containers nor scoring points in a game but Congressional slang for different sections of the new tax bill-each basket being designed to> catch a certain type of taxpayer. Most discussed has been the "third basket," for it carried the largest load of a pet Administration theory-the tax on undistributed profits...
...this constituted a well-rounded education, the student reflected, as he climbed the stairs of a little gallery on East 57th Street. Classes Tuesday through Thursday, then a weekend. Cocktail parties, getting around, meeting people, exchanging ideas. Then topping it off with a spot of culture like this. The sign read, Paintings, Moorish in Subject, Matisse in Influence. He opened the door...
...Contrary to popular belief, in most cases it is not the dealer but the artist who pays for the gallery show by which public and critical attention is attracted to his work. Usual cost: anywhere from $150 for a modest show to $500 for a big one with a cocktail party preview. About the lowest price on a first-rate U. S. painting last year was $100. The highest price of the year was asked by Peter Blume for his three-year job The Eternal City: $15,000. Average price of an average painting...
...Pretty Maiden, Doris Nolan, home from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent, Otto Hulett. While Margo tells them about her idyllic childhood among the jasmine bowers of the South, the curtains close. The orchestra plays Swanee River. The curtains then open on the squalid back yard of a New York tenement, showing the audience what Margo...
...distilling whiskey. Vitamin distillation has been practical only in recent years, has not yet been completely commercialized. Last week, at scientific meetings in Ithaca, Manhattan and Washington, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman of Eastman Kodak laboratories, Rochester, N. Y.-a British bachelor of 41 who likes to give gay cocktail parties, and happens to be more responsible than any other chemist for developing the technique of vitamin distillation-described the results which he and his co-workers have obtained in this new field...