Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief U.S. logistics problem was the supply of Scotch. It was scarce in Rio, even at $115 a case, and the U.S. Embassy staff had pooled its bottles to float Ambassador Bill Pawley's projected cocktail party for 2,000. When one businessman bragged that he owned four bottles of Scotch, another cracked: "Don't say that out loud or you'll be giving a reception for Marshall...
...Beth and swings off to the West Coast with the traveling menagerie for which he has been appointed barker. El Toro Molina, the chief exhibit, is a youthful monster who barely knows how to put up his hands and has the fighting spirit of a titmouse. Eddie throws a cocktail party in Los Angeles to sell the Giant of the Andes to the press...
Says Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses...
Soon everybody was drinking the "intimatist cocktail"-a gin base with an equal dash of curaçao and of an apéritif. Then Sébille rose and spoke. He spoke of his philosophy and the manner in which life should be lived and rosebuds gathered. The intimatists wrapped themselves in bed sheets to resemble Roman togas. From then until well past dawn, intimatism became general...
...debate lasted nearly 20 hours. Twenty times, the tired members trudged to the division lobbies. The Commons bar and cafeteria remained bravely open all night. At 3 a.m., pale but still smiling, Barmaid Doris staggered in with an armful of tomato juice cans, mixed the members' latest favorite cocktail-tomato juice, sherry and Worcester sauce...