Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...
...York Times Radio Editor Jack Gould described the life of the television set owner: "He opens his home to the world . . . The video hostess soon finds that her cocktail shaker ... is no better than a thimble . . . The family's evening is not tainted with such an archaic pursuit as ... conversation. A mute tranquillity has overtaken the American home." ¶Two Congressmen introduced a bill proposing 1) that the U.S. build a $2,500,000 house for its Vice President, and 2) pending construction of the new mansion, house him in dignified old Blair House, now used to accommodate foreign...
...different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...
...Chat. Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads...
Sweet & Sour. Many months and many diplomatic notes have passed since East and West have met socially in Berlin on any such scale. It is thus only natural that even the sickly sweet flavor of cocktail conversation be sharpened with a little acid. An American official points to a Soviet officer and says to me: "That s.o.b. looked straight through me-and we used to go boating together." A British lady, laboring under the delusion that she possesses a gift for repartee, is asked by a friend why she requires such a preposterously large pin to hold a single rose...