Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, over a formal cup of tea, he bade farewell to the Generalissimo. He declined the offer of a high Chinese decoration. He attended a final cocktail party with his staff, packed his dumbbells, captured samurai sword and traveling gear...
...Best man was Tom B. Robinson, and master of ceremonies Frank Samone at the reception held at the Fox and Hounds Club afterwards. Using Lieutenant Towne's sword on the wedding cake, Mrs. Shepherd served a punch, described by our Harry Magnuson as a hybrid whisky sour and champagne cocktail. Only Tom (T. S.) Smith kept his head after some ten or so toasts. A gala affair. Much happiness to them...
...cocktail party in New York, sponsored by the Park Avenue for Roosevelt Committee, 300 Park Avenue residents paid $1 for highballs, $2 for a Commander in Chief cocktail, made of French brandy and champagne...
Although these hotels are among the biggest and best of their kind, both are located in jampacked sections, are far from extravagantly comfortable (single-room rates for civilians: $1.50 to $4 a day) The Pershing's best feature is a cocktail lounge on which $30,000 was spent last May. Facilities for golf, tennis, horseback riding, etc., are six blocks away (in Chicago's Washington Park). The Theresa has recreation rooms but is even farther from open spaces...
Hate for the Germans ran strong in Brussels. Said a well-groomed hostess at an impromptu cocktail party: "I wouldn't mind a bit if some German soldiers were brought into my parlor right now and shot. I'd glory in the bloodstains on my carpet." Wrote a correspondent: "It doesn't seem incongruous to come across a grey-haired old lady, laughingly pointing to the body of a dead German soldier." Said a choked-up Brussels merchant: "The swine have overrun us twice in a single generation." For the second time retreating Germans burned the Library...