Word: cocktailing
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...government brass and economic implications of a trade treaty. Ireland's Minister for Industry and Commerce John Lynch was on hand, and so were officials from the Irish Export Board. Ambassadors, industrialists and such shamrock-struck Americans as James A. Farley milled through a series of receptions, dinners, cocktail parties and pretty speeches. It was hard to believe that crass commercial enterprise was involved. But it was-to an extent that could nudge Ireland into the forefront of fashion and vastly help its already expanding economy (TIME, July...
Freudian expertise has long since reached down through the cocktail party into the children's playroom, but there are still enough happy, balanced, unsavvy five-year-olds around to justify this narrative lexicon of Freudian terms...
...scholarly pursuits, but he has seized the challenge which the Ambassadorship offers with delight and, in the Kennedy tradition, vigor. In the two years and three months he has been in Japan, Reischauer, who speaks Japanese fluently, reads Chinese, and speaks French and German "to get by with at cocktail parties," has journeyed to 27 of the 46 prefectures in Japan. As if apologizing for his failure to have visited all of them, he points out that trips outside Tokyo involve such gruelling schedules, "you can only stand about one trip a month...
...London's cocktail-party circuit, the 200-page manuscript that was handed to Harold Macmillan last week had been billed in advance as a sort of Tropic of Mayfair. Compiled by Lord Denning, Britain's second highest judicial official, the manuscript was the result of an exhaustive, three-month investigation into the security aspects of the great Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov scandal. But the churchgoing, teetotal jurist had also been directed by the Prime Minister to look into "rumors which affect the honor and integrity of public life," meaning gleeful, persistent gossip that several other ministers in Macmillan...
...White House a lone copy of a newly published 653-page book is already badly dog-eared by New Frontiersmen. And all over Washington, those who try to keep up with the talk on the cocktail circuit are eagerly spending $7.95 for Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: The Man & the Myth...