Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocktail lounge of London's Savoy Hotel a lieutenant of the British Navy introduced himself to a couple of correspondents. "You're Americans, aren't you?" he said. "So'm I. I heard you talking, and I couldn't help coming over." He nodded at an R.A.F. sergeant-pilot, who was banking toward the door, and said: "I'm celebrating tonight, and my friend has had enough...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
Miss Barthelmess' only previous exposure to Harvard came last winter when she was appearing in Boston in "Letters to Lucerne." She was beleaguered backstage and whisked off by some Crimson stage-door johnnies to a round of cocktail parties in "some one of your Houses...
Investigators reported that the doctor's treatment for all cases, from ulcers to neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing...
Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller; Bluebird; Bing Crosby; Decca). Smoothest dance version, best vocal, of the rollingly rhythmic song now at the top in sheet-music sales...