Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parceled up among creditors. Its earnings for the first quarter of this year were $173,000, twice the net for the whole of 1942. But, bankrupt or no, Childs's 80 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada will probably still go right on serving the 60? special (plus cocktail) to millions of thirsty, hungry quick-lunchers...
About 75 students (selected from four times that number of applicants) will hear Dr. Haggard, who has dispassionately written of both inebriety and teetotalitarianism. Haggard points to alcohol's good points ("the safest of all sedatives") and gives scientific reasons for tolerating an occasional cocktail or schooner of beer. Besides Haggard, the school will have 20 lecturers. Students will include clergymen, probation officers, school administrators, teachers, welfare workers. Typical accepted student is Michigan's Liquor Control Commission's research director, Lawrence McCracken...
...American male, says Cohn, really dislikes women because 1) he was dominated by them in childhood and early youth, 2) "he vaguely suspects that they regard men as suckers," 3 ) he resents their stepping off their pedestals and competing with him in the vulgar world of offices and cocktail bars. Emotionally adolescent, eager to be mothered by his wife, the husband's place in the family is often that of an elder son. This status is encouraged by the women's press. "When a man weeps at the movies," drools the Ladies' Home Journal, "it means...
Early in his radio career Robson found himself being rapidly "sucked into the hinterland of advertising"-bridge, cocktail parties, etc. For some reason he imagined that the way to get on with his job was to make himself socially objectionable. He expanded his mustache (a fixture on & off from his 19th year) to a full beard, wore dirty brown corduroy suits, bought a yellow chow dog to ride beside him in his bathtub-sized yellow Renault roadster. He became socially unsought-after. A Hollywood urchin finally shamed him out of it with the old standby: "Get a horse...
...will out-glamor California's fabulous Santa Anita Park, generally considered the world's most ornamental race track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...