Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brook, a big swimming pool. There live his second wife, "Steb," a former social worker whom he married in 1934, two daughters, a son, two spaniels, four Persian cats. In the evenings he likes to sprawl on the living-room rug, surrounded by his family, with a cocktail and the afternoon papers. On mild weekends, he likes to have family picnics, with a bountiful supply of hot dogs and cold milk...
Last week Czechoslovakia's playboy Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk answered a toast to the "United Nations" at a swank London lunch by warning his colleagues against "too many cocktail parties." To an acquaintance, Masaryk commented: "Coming from me, that sounds pretty funny...
...along what was once the elegant Kurfürstendamm, bright-eyed mannequins modeled the first designs after the defeat. They were almost as frothy as France's after victory. The shortage of materials was a handicap, but gold lame, for instance, could be made to do for both cocktail gowns and housecoats (see cut). For Berlin's new army of cyclists there was a snappy yellow-&-black suit with a matching belt in canary suede...
Renie, mononymic Hollywood fashion designer, peered into the future, spied something eye-bugging: "transparent covering over the bosom for cocktail and evening clothes-and complete exposure in some instances." To the surprise of few, the Hollywood-Broadway axis straightway began to bare its collective breast...
...Whom the Bell Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write novels...