Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with assurance, the man who killed Sir Harry Oakes might even now be sipping a whiskey & soda at the Prince George bar. Or he might be racing a fleet sailboat before the Royal Nassau Sailing Club. He might be talking business in a Nassau office, taking part in a cocktail-party discussion of the mystery-or resting, full fathom five, beneath the clear waters off Hog Island. Or he might not be in the Bahamas...
Last week a woman asked Columnist Haworth for advice on how to keep her errant husband home. Among other things, she was told: "Your husband's encroaching predilection for ganging up with a stag party to loaf his nights away in cocktail lounges, buying drinks for bevies of uniformed women ... is spendthrift carousing...
Another had to do with a hostess saying to a guest: "I won't offer you a cocktail, Mr. Brown, since you are the head of the Temperance League." "No," replied Mr. Brown, "I am president of the Anti-Vice League." "Oh," said the hostess. "Well, I knew there was something I shouldn't offer...
...stirring a black potion made up of vouchers, pay receipts, money requisitions, cash books (etc.) and a magic liquid. This they managed to slip to the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent but not too intelligent wife of the handsome young CPA in the form of a cooling daquirl cocktail...
...like the old Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday Brunswick records--without Teddy and Billie. Best of all, for me, was the consistently fine trumpet of Frankie Newton, who later played at a slightly phenomenal cocktail party thrown in Lowell C-33 by Kenny Berol--duets with Johnny Fields (string base) and an empty punch bowl with the resultant roomful of loaded guests. It was almost like a Yale party...