Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of triumph, while her sponsors and the losing contestants warmed up at a cocktail party, Mrs. Pollock called her husband to tell him the great news. But Salesman Marion S. Pollock was in an ornery mood. With great abruptness, he told his wife to get her winning combination home "and stop showing it off in Jackson." Weeping openly, Mrs. Pollock packed her bag and took a plane for Columbus...
...that would be meaningless otherwise, offers guidance from other sources on difficult stories, makes cautious predictions (giving reasons) of events to come. It notes changes in the attitudes and appearance of important Government officials, passes on significant scraps of personal conversations, occasionally deals in the things people say at cocktail parties, which are sometimes more revealing than the utterances of a Cabinet member...
Glass Crutch. In Fairbanks, Alaska, a man on crutches hobbled into Hill's cocktail bar, finished two drinks, walked briskly out the door, leaving the crutches behind...
...greatest collection of guys since the Blocks of Granite. As the people waltzed out of the room across the way Vag refused the bottle and began to be irritated by the noise. Down the hall, the other party had broken into "Soldiers Field" and the guy upstairs had his Cocktail Music going full blast. Although it seemed to slow up the guy from the south, Vag turned down the bottle again and couldn't get back behind the closed door fast enough...
...only place on Boylston Street where you can got a frappe," the merchant exclaimed proudly of his store--Cahaly's--whose cluttered window stands warmly at the end of an almost unbroken row on noon-lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...