Word: cocktailing
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...royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon or watching the horses at Ascot. But in the U.S. such clothes are reserved for afternoon weddings, bar mitzvahs or cocktail parties...
...eaten up with grief, sinking into a deep and long-lasting depression." Many a widow invited to a party "to take her mind off things" has embarrassed herself and her hostess by a flood of tears at the height of the festivities. On occasion, Gorer himself "refused invitations to cocktail parties, explaining that I was mourning; people responded to this statement with shocked embarrassment, as if I had voiced some appalling obscenity...
...once used as a bathtub by Rudolph Valentino, a year of ballet lessons, and eight hours of service by a ten-man parking team for a private party. For $475, two culture angels rented the Old Globe Theater for an evening with the intention of staging a play and cocktail party, and Shoe Magnate Harry Karl, husband of Debbie Reynolds, forked out $1,600 to rent an "executive bus" for two weeks, along with drivers, food and beverages. He plans to take a small group of friends on a tour of his out-of-the-way stores...
...Serviceable Wisdom." No athlete, Moyers relaxes at the movies. He dislikes cocktail parties, and as Press Secretary has set some sort of record for that traditionally bibulous post by attending only two since he got the job-and both were for friends. His favorite pastime is reading, which he selects for "serviceable wisdom." Two weeks ago, when he and Brother Jim took their families to the Shenandoah Mountains to view the autumn foliage, Bill took along Robert E. Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, Clinton Rossiter's The American Presidency, Machiavelli's The Prince, and a few others...
...respect of his fellow professionals, but his name was better known to laymen than that of any other contemporary theologian. Students crowded his lectures, and paperback editions of his books sold in the hundreds of thousands. Intellectually ambitious housewives learned from him about the "ambiguities" in their lives, and cocktail parties rang with Tillichian talk about "idolatry" and "ultimate concern." Even though his theories were only dimly understood by many laymen, there was good reason for their appeal, for Tillich tirelessly tried to relate theology to contemporary problems. "To do this," says Dean Jerald Brauer of the Chicago University Divinity...