Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquand, "Boston Adventure," was a very poor piece of goods, as most imitations are. But the latest effort, Helen Howe's "We Happy Few," is several cuts above its predecessors. Showing a speaking acquaintance with the Beacon Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism, and God. The nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when...
Unless you want to find yourself with nothing to say as that post-game cocktail party, throw away your Reader's Digest, dab your ear-lobes with DDT and get over to the Laffmovie to catch the latest in Marxist doctrine...
...left the court to go back into the fray. Felix Frankfurter had made no bones about his coziness with the White House in the Roosevelt days. Jackson hoped for a bigger political plum. Black made speeches before the National Citizens Political Action Committee. Justice Murphy was the most indefatigable cocktail-partier in the capital (where cocktails are invariably spiced with political dope...
Almost every detail of the La Salle Hotel tragedy was duplicated in miniature four days later when fire swept the 55-year-old, 150-room Canfield Hotel at Dubuque, Iowa. The Canfield fire also was discovered shortly after midnight in a cocktail room called the Red Lounge. It swept out to rage in the lobby, trapped 129 guests in smoke-filled rooms upstairs. Most escaped down ladders and fire escapes. Fifteen died that morning-two in attempting jumps into fire nets...
...usual, the Communists scored a news beat; Chou announced the agreement at an American Embassy cocktail party. Next day Chiang gave it substance by ordering his generals to hold "all advances, attacks and pursuits." Chiang took another step toward conciliation. He proposed that Marshall be empowered to act as supreme arbiter in all Communist-Nationalist disputes. Chou hedged: "We've trusted Marshall, but to trust him and to give him arbitrary power are two different things." In Marshall's personal plane Chou took the proposal to Yenan where Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was deciding whether...