Word: cocktails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...
...family wealth. At Yale (class of '82) he specialized in boxing, now plays excellent golf and rides daily. He arrives at his office at 9:05, leaves at 4:55. At the Burlingame station his horse and groom await him. He smokes $1 cigars, occasionally takes a cocktail. Outside interests include politics (he is a Republican National Committeeman). University of California and Lick Observatory, to which he has quietly made large gifts. He weighs 180 pounds, stands 5 ft. 8 in., rounds out an impression of correct fastidiousness with an evenly white, severely trimmed mustache and goatee...
...Cocktail...
...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...
...contribute $1,000 to a home for girls.* Accustomed, however, is Mr. Kresge to reflections upon his philanthropy. His gift of $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League in 1927 was followed by a statement from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment that Kresge stores were selling homebrew outfits, cocktail shakers and other accessories of Prohibition...