Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pace of work had begun to tell on other Ministers. John Strachey (Food) had been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
...good many invitations to Washington parties, particularly from oil heiresses and South American embassies. As Senator Tiglon of New York he would also be invited to the White House, thus posing difficult, but not necessarily insuperable problems of security. And if he refrained from eating butlers (except at crowded cocktail parties), observed protocol and learned to growl softly at older women, Senator Tiglon might even-despite his mixed parentage -become a social lion...
...thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail, "is my work...
...Vogue's readers, Martha Krock, onetime society reporter, now the wife of New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, divulged the distilled wisdom of a veteran Washington hostess. The advice: "Don't give cocktail parties . . . . Of all things dedicated to spoil the evening to come, the cocktail party ranks first." But if you must, "don't serve those awful little monsters known as canapées," and avoid mobs...
Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified-so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...