Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This will be the sixth Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, but is the first to invade the domain of the University. It will cover the two floors formerly occupied by the atmosphere-laden Rathskeller, and plans are being laid to include a cocktail...
Painter Morris Graves is a special pet of Manhattan's artiest art lovers, but he is careful to keep 3,000 miles between himself and their cocktail parties. His strange paintings, completely uninfluenced by the fads of 57th Street, look as if they might have been done by a lama in the peaks of Tibet. Graves has done little to dispel that illusion. When his temperas were first shown and acclaimed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), critics and writers excitedly wired Seattle for information about him. The tall, cadaverous recluse sent them...
...group to which he can attach himself, and, since there is little or no opportunity to meet his intellectual colleagues in the lecture hall or even in the section, he turns to some formal or informal social group whose only common denominator is an interest in football games, cocktail parties, and desultory bull sessions...
...Guildsman and no crusader, leathery Bert Andrews, 46, had stubbornly stuck to his reporter's last through seven years as the Trib's top capital hand. A Washington assignment offers subtle temptations: if a reporter is not careful he may turn into a pundit, or a cocktail-swigging socialite, or become a power behind some politician's throne. Such lures have left Andrews cold. In Albany and way points (Sacramento, Chicago, the Paris Herald, and Manhattan), he learned to keep his nose for news clean, and his news sources at arm's length...
...planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either economy or good sense...