Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bluff treatment of the women who pay $37.75 and up for a hat, Ben is rewarded with fawning affection. Last Easter 22 of his clients were so grateful that they threw a surprise cocktail party for him in his shop, complete with hors d'oeuvres from his own hat boxes, passed around by their assembled chauffeurs...
...always had good sources in the State and Justice Departments, was close to the old Corcoran-Cohen team, has produced many an authentic news beat (the overage destroyers deal, the University of Louisiana graft scandals). But he is frequently guilty of colossal errors of fact, often reports cocktail gossip as gospel truth, sometimes writes colossal fictions. (In 1940, a few weeks before John L. Lewis went on the air for Wendell Willkie, the Merry-Go-Round solemnly reported, in quotations, a conversation in which Lewis and the President decided to be pals again...
This cocky, whip-smart, 260-lb. jumbo could: 1) eat a dozen eggs at a sitting, 2) bat out a brilliant legal opinion with his eyes closed, 3) keep cocktail parties in stitches with slapstick impersonations of Herbert Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Troopships were loading, too. Three-tiered bunks and plain wooden mess tables replaced luxury fittings. Hundreds of men slept in what used to be a cocktail lounge. It was early evening, but most of the men aboard were already asleep in their clothes, life belts and canteens handy...
...idea got started when blunt, handsome, 38-year-old Surgeon Paul Sanger confided to General Marshall at a cocktail party in 1940 that the Charlotte doctors wanted to form an Army unit. The unit was authorized in December, went on active duty at Fort Bragg in March 1942, left for England Aug. 6, scrambled ashore in Africa Nov. 7 and was fully set up about ten miles from Oran a few days later. At Oran, the unit handled 2,027 patients...