Word: cocktailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Carswell added a personal note about the value of a Harvard education. "I went to business school because going to cocktail parties was the only thing I was qualified to do when I graduated," he said...
...Presentation Cocktail Party...
This year the government was forced to reduce the growth of spending and hold down spiraling wages. The Shah's austerity plan, mixed in with the rising expectations and rising prices, produced an economic Molotov cocktail. Government workers, their salaries ravaged by inflation unofficially estimated at more than 50% last year, went on strike. They were soon followed by 67,000 workers in the oilfields and employees in the post office, national airline, customs, telephone and steel companies and power stations...
This is a play in which a dinner party guest holds his fellow guests and hosts at gunpoint for much of the evening, but talks them to death first. The talk is cosmic-broody and Manhattan cocktail-party modern, which may be a redundancy. As with an onion, the peeling away of each layer of speechifying in Drinks Before Dinner leaves less and less to behold...
...afternoon, cocktail time at the Cannes Film Festival, an airplane flew over the strip of beach trailing a long banner announcing a new movie called Superman...