Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often now, on moonless nights, the Nazi planes roared over. But in London's better cocktail bars last week, life still sparkled. There was gaiety in London-thanks, in large part, to visiting Americans...
...towering (6 ft. 7 in.), gloomy-browed Playwright Robert E. Sherwood (Idiot's Delight)* sometime Presidential speech doctor, was in town to "coordinate" U.S. propaganda between London and the Mediterranean. He managed to get around to a fair share of cocktail parties, where he looked miserable, helped serve drinks. Playwright Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, one of wartime London's smash hits, had to suspend performances when Actor Alfred Lunt caught bronchitis fire-watching, and passed his cold along to Actress Lynn Fontanne...
Three ex-newsmen labored to cement U.S.-British good will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...Last week, after weeks of cogitation, OPA forbade liquor dealers to use the word "gin" for the new cane-base, shellac-scented cocktail base now pouring into the U.S. from the Caribbean. The official, denatured title from now on: "Distilled spirits made from cane products and favored with aromatics...
About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...