Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate the end of his first year in Hollywood (during which he did not get around to making a single picture), impish young Actor Orson Welles gave a cocktail party for the press, announced that he was actually beginning production on a picture, Citizen Kane, of which he will be producer, director, star. Welles had so garbled the script for it that even R. K. O. officials did not know what it would be about...
Belatedly the Aircraft Production Ministry thought it was going to run short of "aluminium," called on housewives to contribute objects of rolled "aluminium" such as kitchenware, hair-curlers, shoe trees, cocktail shakers, beer mugs. A few hundred tons trickled in and the Daily Sketch cheerily headlined: "From the Frying Pan Into the Spitfire...
...against spaghetti, warning that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been...
Heading the list of signers is Charles A. Coolidge '17, a member of the Corporation. Formulated during the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs last weekend, the letter was singed by all members present at an informal pre-luncheon cocktail party...
...give you five minutes," saic Princess Kropotkin. Sue went up and stayed an hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...