Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertainers in the show and two dance bands (Jack Denny's & Johnny Gilbert's), 25 barkeeps at a 400-foot balcony-bar. Todd runs this monstrous pub on the principle of low prices and big volume. He charges 50? admission, offers dinners from 75? up, a champagne cocktail for 25?. His publicity boasts that he makes the quarter-of-a-dollar "the largest single unit of entertainment buying power in the entire history of the show business." On opening night 3,500 customers felt inclined to agree. In addition to dining & dancing, they saw Todd...
...knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside an afternoon cocktail, come to Clapper conclusions almost exactly the day he does. With the same painful care that his daily readers were exercising, he had been trying to spell out very simply just what was the central issue in the 1940 campaign. The war had obscured the issue, Candidate Franklin Roosevelt talked about loftier...
Locally they will agitate against "drinkin' and sinnin'" at football weekend cocktail parties, the Bunnies said, claiming that their movement was 'already "sweeping Leverett like wildfire." In the international sphere they propose to aid China by national prohibition, which will naturally increase consumption of Chinese...
Last week the National Association of Coroners met in Philadelphia. Officials suggested to their host, Coroner Charles H. Hersch, that a cocktail party be held in the city morgue. Snapped Mr. Hersch: "As long as I'm coroner there'll be reverence only for the deceased...
...Manhattan's young Museum of Costume Art planned enlargement of its membership and its historical library to supplant the vast research facilities of Paris, raised $5,800 for the project at a cocktail party last week...