Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These distinguished members of the company of educated men feel that their Harvard diplomas qualify them as expert football critics. Consequently they come with a flask on Saturday afternoons and spend two hours impressing their wives by second-guessing the quarterback. Then they go to a cocktail party and slander the coach. Then they go home and sleep it off. And that...
Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...
...skits on the field which might reflect on other colleges. This edict, Finney asserted, would apply to any bandsman dressed up as an Indian, Bear, or Tiger. Finney also claims that there had been repercussions from Dartmouth and University Hall concerning the "Indian that came out of the cocktail glass" the band formed at the Dartmouth game...
Bred to salons in which ladies & gentlemen together debated literary and topical matters, Mrs. Trollope was outraged by a nation in which the men were happiest alone with "a gin cocktail," their feet up on the backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used...
...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...