Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets the twin-decked Shetlands, B.O.A.C. would temporarily be out in front of its U.S. rivals. The Shetlands, slightly smaller but faster than the Martin "Mars," would be the most de luxe planes ever to cross the Atlantic. Each will carry 70 passengers, will have a cozy cocktail lounge and comfortable berths for the overnight hop to London...
Indians and Indians. The Top of the Mark, the Mark Hopkins' famed skyline cocktail room, was an international tippling spot. Viscount and Lady Cranborne drank Old Fashioneds, Earl and Lady Halifax Scotch & soda, Clement Attlee plain soda water...
...including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
William Lyon Phelps. Learning of Santayana's taste for "contemplating athletic contests," Professor Phelps invited him to be his house guest during Harvard-Yale games. "Phelps was irresistible. His every word was a cocktail, or at least a temperance drink. He made you love everything. Even if you were not naturally genial, you found you were his friend, almost his intimate friend, without having in the least expected it." At Yale, Santayana found that enthusiasm was cultivated as Phelps cultivated it, indiscriminately, but he found Yale "a most living, organic, distinctive, fortunate place...
...Regular Army's wealthiest officers, he has a high social polish. He and his wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, both have ample means, and in peacetime enjoy social life at their California ranch and handsome farm at Hamilton, Mass. In moments of ease Patton mixes a heady conversational cocktail of military erudition that might range from the 6th Century B.C. precepts of Sun Tzu to the tactics by which George Patton took the citadel at Metz...