Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
...this $500 Pulitzer Prize award, Reporter Johnson murmured modestly that "the woods are full of reporters who could do as good a job." Then he took time out for an office cocktail party in his honor, and went back to digging...
...just as great as his success with his audiences. During his Philharmonic engagement the musicians spontaneously got together one afternoon and chipped in to present Munch with a gift symbolic of their respect and admiration. And after his last concert in New York, they honored him with a cocktail party, something which had been done only once before--when Toscanini finished his last season with the Philharmonic...
...fashionable Palace Hotel, old China hands still danced under the whirling colored lights of the cocktail lounge. Three Nationalist soldiers, in rough padded uniforms, left silently when the headwaiter told them the price...
Many a man has been cornered at bar rail or cocktail table by an expert, and felt his eyes glazing and his mind wandering desperately like a white mouse in an empty cakebox. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Stephen Potter, a BBC director and father of Gamesmanship ("The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"-TIME, Sept. 6), offered such defensive citizens the art of Lifemanship...