Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robeson, who states that his production of this play is still far from prefect, and who is experimenting to work out new ideas all the time, was entertained as guest of honor, with Margaret, Webster, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and other members of the cast of "Othello" at a cocktail party given jointly by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Signet Society...
...representatives who spoke to them both on and off the record, the newsmen spent on hour in Cambridge. At 3:30 o'clock they crossed the Charles to visit the Business School. After examining the Fatigue Laboratory, they were addressed by Dean Donald K. David and taken to a cocktail party...
...More than 2,000 words are borrowed from English or Portuguese, e.g., kohi (coffee), naifu (knife), teiburu (table), tabako (tobacco), kakuteiru (cocktail...
Washington's present social lions are officers, Latin American diplomats, wartime bigwigs like Donald Nelson, Leon Henderson and Sumner Welles, who are showered with invitations but accept very few. Because busy men have to be caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...
...fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...