Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Roof had everything and everybody was there. What a list of celebrities Governor Salfonstall, Admiral Theohold, Senator Walsh, Dinah Shore and Tommy Tucker to name a few. All these were invited and would have come if they had the time. But there were many there. Particularly in the cocktail lounge. There, a happy crowd gathered amidst pleasant conviviality, piled four or five deep. At one time I had the horrible experience of seeing my girl with four legs and three hands, two of them holding drinks. Then I realized that it was only John Ryan and his girl siting...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "As you go from lunch party to cocktail party to late dinner, you realize that these people live more beautifully, possibly, than any people in the world. . . . You go to dine at Count Borromeo's and find that he has discovered an early 18th-Century gold and white vaulted ceiling, uniting five rooms, so he has torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them...
...Parker House, restricted to those of the Mid-Off School. . . . For those of you who don't know, the Parker House Roof is not open to Boston's salty breezes, so repack those woolies. It is really a smooth place to dance--with all the comforts of home--a cocktail bar attached, that is. Midshipmen and Senior Officers are invited to the function, which gives promise of being just what we have all been waiting...
Civilian Goods. U.S. housewives may get cocktail shakers before they get vacuum cleaners. Reason: articles which need few parts can be made quickest, as soon as metal is available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...this Home is Mr. Hilton who is a captain away at war. Only his photograph ever appears in the film. Mrs. Hilton the U.S. dream housewife, is Claudette Colbert, acting her age. She is graciously patronizing to tradesmen, affectionate toward her servant (Hattie McDaniel) patient even with her bitchy cocktail-acquaintance (Agnes Moorehead) and a good mother to her two daughters...