Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family. France's Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu* shopped in Gump's lush Mandarin Room. Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla went to the same famed Post Street store to get Mexican silver plates, gifts for the American delegation. Brazil's Carlos Martins pounced on cocktail sets and identification bracelets at jewelers like Shreve...
...last home-front job for a long time. One day in 1942 he had a 6 o'clock cocktail date with his wife. A few minutes before 6 he got a telephone summons from the Navy. Sullivan rushed off, learned that his assignment was to salvage the U.S.S. Wakefield, then burning off the Newfoundland coast. He flew to the ship, took her in to a beach he had picked out from the plane, later brought the Wakefield home. Mrs. Sullivan, whom he stood up that evening in New York, has seen him only three days since...
...finest, most applauded novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald succeeded superbly in portraying the hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
After lunch, the distinguished visitor went on to meet 500 of the most important people in Hollywood at a cocktail party given by Producer Walter Wanger. Rank had five orange juices. Columnist Hedda Hopper remarked that she thought Mr. Rank was going to administer a much-needed "goose" to the industry...