Word: cocktails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assure prospective voyagers on the Pacific that they need not trouble themselves to take passage under a foreign flag in order to escape the drought existent here. I have been a frequent passenger aboard Dollar liners, and I have never had to forego the pleasure of my evening cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart, depending upon...
Despite the "impressively negative" popular vote, Swiss Drys gained one victory last week. Unknown individuals have ordered the cocktail bar in the basement of the League of Nations Secretariat to remain closed each day until 12 noon...
...large and prosperous Cafe Edouard Sacher on the Ringstrasse belongs to Frau Sacher's son. The Cafe Edouard Sacher is new and noisy. There is a jazz band, a cocktail bar, plenty of money in the cashier's drawer. Frau Sacher never allowed Edouard to have a word in the management of her hotel. Still Edouard was a dutiful son. It was no secret that the jazzy new cafe had paid many an overdue account for the old hotel...
Regretfully, disapprovingly Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith placed the tips of his fingers together and said, "Since the War we have become as bad a cocktail and Champagne country as you ever were in America. I am speaking not of the Americans who come to London but of English people themselves. They are drinking more cocktails all the time, and the Vermouth dealers are making fortunes. As for Champagne it is crowding all the other wines out of our smart restaurants. The women are responsible; they always want Champagne! Every year they want it sweeter, more heavily liquored. And after...
...confused with "The Old Etonian," potent cocktail served at London's Hotel Metropole...