Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Christmas Day Saunders and his chief executive, Major Jack Malloy, were summoned to headquarters of the Solomons' Air Commander, Major General Millard Harmon, for a cocktail party. In the midst of festivities COMSOUPAC Admiral William F. Halsey showed up, read an order, pinned on flustered Blondie the stars of a brigadier general...
Life Is Real. In Washington, a patent was awarded to Charles T. Jacobs for a device that keeps the ice in a cocktail shaker from diluting the "dividend." In Des Moines, the Iowa legislature voted to protect ladies in sailboats from getting splashed by making it unlawful for a motorboat to pass a sailboat to the windward...
...Brazil were former models and chorus girls who had married rich Brazilians. Since he brought only uniforms (he did not know where he was going when he first got his orders) and there are many occasions in Rio where officers appear in civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas in bed with desarranjo (bowel discord...
...Cocktail parties in Warsaw miss their mark when a Jewish family is about to be "liquidated." Dialogue in a Polish concentration camp is smothered by the wails of an entire colony on its way to the Nazi form of final justice. A honeymoon through northern France loses its gayety when interrupted by streams of panic-stricken refugees...
Other ingredients in Mr. Sturges' glittering cocktail are Joel McCrea (as Claudette's husband), and a gay new Mary Astor (as Rudy's sister) with her hair dyed blonde for the first time to distinguish her from brunette Claudette. The plot sometimes seems in need of sign posts to keep things straight. It has to do with Miss Colbert's flight from her husband to Florida and high jinks-which end with Miss Colbert being disrobed by her husband while Rudy croons to her from the garden...