Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...
General Marshall had a long series of bad moments after U.S. flyers, showing a suspicious amount of foresight, shot down Admiral Yamamoto's plane at Bougainville in 1943. Gossip rustled through the Pacific and into Washington cocktail parties; General Marshall got to the point of asking the FBI to find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs...
They shared the space with a publicity man who sat between them on a jump seat. Next evening, air-shaken and weary, they stood through a publicity cocktail party before going to their bridal suite, where they were now & again called to the door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows...
...brought new markets : popcorn substituted for scarce candy, went over seas to lend a homey touch to military lite, was eaten in bars and cocktail lounges by a nation which was drinking with both hands. Result: unprocessed corn soared from the prewar price of $1.57 (for 100 Ibs.) to $3.86. From then on, Oklahoma farmers needed no more urging. Typical was 44-year-old Tom Earnest of Okfuskee County.' Tom Earnest had worked his way up from sharecropping "by trying things...
...colleges and clubs are girding themselves for the appropriate observance of their first post-war Ivy League classic. Cocktail parties launched on all the known varieties of strong waters will alleviate chills acquired in the grandstands...