Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catcher was the custom-built $30,600 Sport Fisherman of Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., with red-leather "fighting" and swordfish chairs, and a built-in cocktail bar. But the crowd pleasers were the mass production models like M. M. Davis & Son's 21-ft. Cruis-Along ($2,440) and Churchward & Co.'s all-steel, all-welded Steelcraft cruisers, priced from...
...other, in spite of some interesting devices, has no characters worth reading about and a trite situation without any real resolution. The one story is almost completely offensive in its adolescence and pretentiousness; its title is "The Uprooted," all the characters are writers, and the scene is a cocktail party. Figure the rest out for yourself...
...Perhaps he believes that it will give him the answers to all the vague and abstruse problems that bother him. Perhaps he thinks that, by some miracle, it will turn him into a well-rounded and omniscient man, or, perhaps preferably into a man who can talk well at cocktail parties. It won't. For one thing, there is no General Education at Harvard today; there is just a collection of courses with which the Committee is experimenting, using current Harvard students as voluntary guinea pigs. For another, although many of the present G. E. offerings are excellent, they...
When Secretary of State George Marshall flew in for the opening of this week's Foreign Ministers' Conference, the big business of Big Diplomacy began. In between a cocktail party for visiting movie stars and an honorary degree for Marshall, Douglas and Marshall got to work...
...night spots and theatres when they might normally choose to pass the evening in the relative comfort and sanctity of their rooms. It is a sadly warped social life that can include no private parties and that leaves a man idling away his after-theatre hour in a noisy cocktail lounge instead of in the easy talk and companionship that can come only with familiar, personalized surroundings...