Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holed up at Colorado Springs, where in the heady mountain air his entourage put out claims that he will have enough G. O. P. convention votes to nominate him for President on the first ballot. Democrat Jim Farley swigged tomato juice (his strongest tope) at a succession of Manhattan cocktail parties, let "friends" announce to the press that he also has first-ballot prospects (if Franklin Roosevelt does not run). Paul McNutt paraded through Guthrie, Okla., in a ten-gallon hat. Georgia Democrats swiped the State's convention delegation from Senator Walter Franklin George, plumped for Third Term. Another...
...have shrimp cocktail first, Mary; be very careful how you carry the tray there. . . . About the dessert-this Tarrytown Special-a fruit salad of bananas, berries and pears with caramel sauce on it. That's about all, but don't hurry though. That's the dollar dinner I want served next week when I get off the train from Washington." Dr. Smith tries to identify speakers' places of origin by their pronunciation. and, what is more, does so about 70% of the time...
...there is one generalization which can safely be drawn concerning music today it is that this is a primarily symphonic age. All over the country people flock to concert-halls to hear the modern orchestra, like some gigantic cocktail-shaker, dish up a little Beethoven, Wagner, and Rimsky-Korsakov...
...soft gelatin capsules used in the U. S., Bob Scherer was busier than usual. Slugabed still, he got down to the office closer to 11 o'clock than 10, spent most of his days in a big white leather chair in a swanky modernistic office hard by his cocktail bar. But the bar did no business, for Capsuleman Scherer was finishing arrangements for moving his Windsor plant to Toronto, for upping his 1939 production of medicament-filled capsules from...
...Smoothest "agents" threw numerous cocktail parties for industrialists at swanky hotels to which they also invited various minor Ministry officials-or at least men who posed as from the Ministry...