Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of U.S. citizens have heard of her-at second hand. No one ever quite catches her name. She is a large-bosomed, pushing, middle-aged woman, a shade too richly dressed. She has popped up on a streetcar in Schenectady, N.Y., a cocktail bar in Detroit, a bus in Houston, a Manhattan shoestore. She always remarks, in a loud, smug voice, that the war is making her prosperous and she hopes it goes on & on. At this point, a patriotic woman bystander lets go with a well-aimed umbrella, handbag, or whatever is handy...
Mornings, Emily worked sparingly for the British North-China Daily News, reserving her energy and enthusiasm for Anglo-Chinese bilingual "little mags." Evenings, she dressed her gibbons in sable fur coats, took them to cocktail parties and dinners. But after a while Emily felt bored and lonely. "I'll get old and fat out here," she complained to her Chinese boy friend Sinmay, a publisher. "You are morbid," said Sinmay, "you must marry me." She went to his lawyer and signed a paper "declaring that I considered myself his [Sinmay's] wife 'according to Chinese...
Colonel Crowe's fondness for what he calls his "Baptist Cocktail" has made him also feared by his friends. His recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good...
Just because last week-end was the first liberty that we've had in months was no reason for the police to make us call in every five minutes. Geo, we read the papers, too. By the way, have you had a Cowle Cocktail. For particulars see the pharmacist's mate...
...pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge (see cut) or cargo...