Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
...What Has the Guy Got?" In Washington last week, red-faced Kenneth Royall denied that he had said anything about quitting Japan. His cocktail guests in Tokyo insisted that he had. U.P.'s Robert Kalischer quoted him flatly as saying...
...flavor chemist, Hoiland-born Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, tells how he vacuum-distilled 6,000 pounds of pineapples and ended up with a few grams of powerful pineapple essence. He took the essence apart bit by bit, identifying microscopic amounts of flavor-giving compounds. Then he mixed a cocktail of the chemicals he had spotted. The result was a "satisfactory reproduction" of fresh pineapple smell...
Across town in the swank La Touraine cocktail lounge, Conservative Leader Drew also worked on political fences. Flanked by two pressagents and his politicking wife Fiorenza, Drew gave a party for the parliamentary press gallery...
...brought him to his feet was the bill to give the President a raise. "There is entirely too much high living in Washington," he said. He saw a trend, reflected in the President's increased expense account, "resulting in an overemphasis of the social aspects of government service . . . Cocktail parties that cost from $500 to $1,000 should not be considered as being a necessary expense or social obligation of ... public office in this country . . .What Washington D.C. needs is some simple living...