Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, foreign correspondents in Paris received elegantly printed invitations asking them to a "cocktail de la paix" to be given the following evening, from 6 to 8,-in the offices of the Communist daily paper, L'Humanité. Eyebrows shot up, for it was the first time "L'Huma" had ever done anything like this. Few foreigners ever get past the guards at the entrance of the paper...
...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
Morris, whose two-seater M.G. Midget is a popular U.S. seller, this year offered a four-seater tourer (U.S. price: $2,750) with leather seats, adjustable steering wheel, built-in jack. The slickly streamlined Alvis 14 special sports tourer has its headlights hidden behind the radiator grill, and a cocktail bar in a door...
...vote favored more conservative colors and styles with the exception of a red faille bolero and skirt Dior original in the cocktail dresses division. Modeling the winning combinations were Mary Frances Blakeslee '52; Susan Kunstadter, Sargent; Joan Wilson, Sargent; Peggy Crawford, Simmons; Jane Hauser, Boston University; and Joyce Dana, Tufts...
...spectators were a distinguished and resourceful group. One young lady brought a pedigreed manicured miniature poodle to divert her during the contest. A hand brought a gallon thermos of martinis to the game so that the cocktail hour could start on time...