Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...
After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
Even in such a cushy mixed-drink temple as the Bal Masque cocktail lounge, a stone's throw from the Loop, business picked up after a set had been installed. The headwaiter reported that he could hardly wait until baseball season opens-the place was sure to get a big afternoon play from the fashionable sporting...
Offering listeners a record playing service for the cost of a phone call, WHCN will revive its Saturday afternoon request program, "Cocktail Matinee," this afternoon from 4:30 to 8 o'clock. The program, popular during the fall with post-football listeners, will be repeated as often as audience response warrants it, the Network announced yesterday...
London's Little Peace Conference wound up in a festive blaze of cocktail and dinner parties. Preparations for the imminent Big Peace Conference began with a less festive scrubbing and whitewashing in Moscow's Moskva and Metropole Hotels. But the prospects for the meeting on which all of Europe's peace depends were not bright. The report to the Foreign Ministers, which the deputies turned in after a spell of predeadline frenzy, was largely a list of deadlocks...