Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink of water, called "a Schuylkill cocktail," is taken only as a last resort. All Philadelphians who can afford to drink bottled water...
...needs this alcohol. Each time a 16-inch naval gun is fired, 1,500 Ib. of smokeless powder, which took 60 gallons of alcohol to manufacture, is blasted into air and even a rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a cocktail. U.S. alcohol output is not geared to this kind of shooting. Regular producers like Commercial Solvents and U.S. Industrial Alcohol have nearly doubled their output since March, can go no further because of the shortages in copper and machine tools needed for new stills. Yet reserve stocks are only 5,000,000 gallons (three or four days...
...Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...
When the crowd is heading home after the big game toward cocktail parties, and dances, trouble is just beginning for the men in Dillon Field House who take care of the health and equipment of Harvard's outdoor athletes...
...were to spell. It was so late when they finished eating that, if he hoped to get back to Briggs by the ten o'clock deadline, movies were out of the question. So they walked slowly up Washington Street, eye-feasting in several open jewelry stores and auctions, pricing cocktail shakers, pewter beer mugs and Egyptian rings. Then, at nine-forty, they took the subway back to Cambridge...