Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contradiction in terms. Last week the Koch Bros, were arrested for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Their brew was found watery. Said Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Ray: "Chemical analysis shows that the dilution [of Glyoxylide] is so infinitesimal that it would be like dumping a cocktail in the Detroit River and expecting to get a kick out of the water going over Niagara Falls...
...last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
...Manhattan. She had been writing juveniles and highly popular nonsense verse for some ten years before she turned her hand to detective fiction in 1909. A semi-invalid, she was once given only two years to live, prepared herself for the end by ordering a chiffon gown and cocktail jacket as her deathbed costume, then lived ten years and wrote more than 25 more books...
...leaving, Grandson Danny, age nine, "shrank a little from his kiss." "Danny takes things too hard," said Canby. But the most successful (and funniest) scenes in the book are Author Hicks's re-creation of the endless political patter of the radicals. Best is probably a weekend cocktail party at Comrade Wallace Burgin's, where Wife Christina thoughtlessly asks the unpardonable question: "Are you a member of the Communist Party, Selma...
Violation. In Rome, N.Y., a stray buck deer jumped through a window into a cocktail lounge, nearly struck a sign reading: "No Stags Allowed...