Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old-Christy Lynch is the new U.S. music season's most trumpeted visitor. After a cocktail party and supper in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish...
...York City the American Labor Party-without whose votes the Democrats cannot hope to carry the state-gave a cocktail party for the faithful to meet Jim Mead and Herbert Lehman (the ALP as well as the Democratic candidates for governor and Senator). Jim Mead sent regrets. Herbert Lehman showed up, but ducked any discussion of the Wallace affair. Many an ALPman was deep in defeatism...
...fall of 1941, a shrewd Irishwoman named Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett surrounded herself with eager young literary men and started a magazine in Manhattan. She gave showy cocktail parties in her penthouse to introduce herself to the trade. The trade learned that Mrs. Garrett was a "celebrated international medium," who claimed powers of clairvoyance, telepathy and prevision.* The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision. Last week Eileen Garrett's Tomorrow had its third editor in 60 days...
...Everybody Happy? (MARCH OF TIME) sets out to prove that modern man, with all his marvelous labor-saving machines, has finally outsmarted himself. In spite of self-shaking cocktail mixers and self-converting auto tops, American men & women of 1946 are jumpy, spiritually and emotionally hungry, fearful of their futures and unsure of their sex appeal...
...Chloe's devoted suitors are rewarded only with such snacks as "the incomparable Chloe Cocktail" ("She sipped it, leaving a kiss within the cup, and bestowed it on Claude as it were a decoration") and "that lovely, quick, tender smile which she had given, he knew, to a hundred men, but which remained always a private benediction...