Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter century, presiding judge of the Mixed Tribunal at Cairo.) Kippy went to school in Switzerland and Germany, returned to the U.S. to graduate from Dartmouth (1913). Then he began a long odyssey through U.S. consulates, legations and embassies, became equally at home in the salons of Paris, international cocktail parties in Geneva, the polo fields of Budapest...
...Vichy, Tuck's knowledge of diplomatic personalities was a great help to Ambassador William D. Leahy. When Admiral Leahy returned to the U.S. to become Franklin Roosevelt's military adviser, Kippy Tuck took over. Salons, cocktail parties and polo fields are all closed but nowadays he would not care to play around. Watching the France he knew trodden under the Nazi heel has been bitter. Last week he had a chance to speak his wartime mind...
Because a single rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a stiff cocktail and more than four gallons go into making a single synthetic tire, the U.S. will use 476,000,000 gallons of commercial alcohol next year, four times any pre-war year. Most of this huge increase will be met by the liquor makers, who have an estimated capacity of 435,000,000 gallons annually. If things go as planned, the liquor industry will supply the newly developed war alcohol market (rubber and powder) and regular alcohol producers will handle the ordinary market (plastics, lacquers, chemicals, anti...
...Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
...cocktail party was given by the Dramatic Club and the Signet Society in order that the members of the cast of Dracula, which the Dramatic Club is producing on August 20, 21, and 22, might meet the cast of "Othello...