Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene shifts to Washington and the plot to Cinderella. In the capital, where her bridegroom is obviously a man of consequence, Katy-appears at a cocktail party in a mousy dress with a frumpy, ruffled collar. All the other women are wearing chic, severe black with diamond clips. Katy, of course, feels perfectly terrible for a good many feet of film until Taylor takes her shopping for some Irene gowns...
WHCN is the only station broadcasting the game and their description of the grid battle will come by leased telephone wire and be broadcast through the Crimson Network and Radio Radcliffe exclusively. At the end of the game the local station will pick up and continue with cocktail music until 8 o'clock...
...pacify insistent newsmen, they agreed to meet a few top correspondents at a small Mayfair cocktail party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit with demure earrings and lapel brooch, made a point of chatting with each guest. Correspondents got the impression that the Windsors wanted a quiet and friendly press because the Duke was job-hunting and wanted no reminders...
...cocktail party an exactress cooed: 'But why, if they don't like the conditions in the hotels, don't they find some other job? My Gawd, I'd be willing to pay two pounds a week for a charwoman...
...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...