Word: cocktailing
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Conceivably. Challe might have construed cocktail concurrence or individual sympathy as a hope for solid support. At any rate, he was disappointed. A rebel emissary did indeed turn up at the U.S. consulate general in Algiers with a request for some kind of aid. He was rebuffed, told flatly his request was fantastic...
...modern society has been his dogged refusal to conform to it-especially to its drab, workaday timetable. No self-respecting Madrileno would think of lunching before 2 p.m., or returning to the office before 4. Matinees in Madrid begin at 7 p.m.. evening performances at 11. The cocktail hour starts at 8:30, and until he sits down to his supper at some undeterminable time after 10 p.m., the Spaniard believes it is still afternoon...
...simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...
...which there is more and more time for leisure makes the U.S. the first country to worry actively about leisure, Larrabee said. He cited the need for balance between work and play, and for avoidance of the extremes of the Madison Avenue type who carries his business to every cocktail party and the horse-around who pulls practical jokes all day at the office...
...income taxes. Before Lane was sentenced to four months in prison (he was promptly re-elected to Congress on his release), Celler asked Wyzanski for a meeting in his chambers to discuss the case. The judge refused. Celler got boilingly mad, later berated Wyzanski when they met at a cocktail party. "I'll never forget!" he cried. And he never...