Word: cocktailing
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...cocktail-party bore who laces his chatter with the tiresome cliche about "crazy, mixed-up women" has more medical science on his side than he knows-and more than medical scientists themselves have recognized until recently. Even normal women, it appears, are mixtures of two different types of cells, or what the researchers call "genetic mosaics." If both cell types are normal, so is the woman. But if one is defective, though a woman may seem to enjoy good health herself, she may pass on hereditary disorders to her children. And oddly, the victims will nearly always be her sons...
...Hollywood, institutions do not crumble; they deflate. On New Year's Eve, a loud whistling sigh will develop at Prince Michael Romanoff's fabled restaurant as it sags into extinction. After 23 years in business, the instant prince this week held a command cocktail party in order to tell selected courtiers that he is through...
Research began when the scientists administered their medicine (formula: 1¾ oz. dry gin + ¼ oz. vermouth + 1 olive). Tests ended "at saturation," when nobody cares. The conclusion: "A linear relationship of 2 db increase of tolerance per martini until the third cocktail became apparent. At this point, another physiological condition gradually occurs within the subject, causing the tolerance to increase on a cumulative basis of 4 db per cocktail until saturation...
...Lots of people like Scotch whisky and drink it, but some hate it and go on drinking it anyway. Why? Because it's In-as anyone knows who has recently tried to stage a cocktail party with only martinis...
...Little Miss Echo soaks up anything said in her presence; flip the locket the other way and she sounds off with 25 seconds of back talk. Little girls owning this transistorized Trilby will have a tough time keeping her away from Mommy and Daddy's cocktail parties. American Doll...