Word: cocktails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another strange sight is the displacement of the traditional still life vases and fruits by the cocktail shaker, lemon and square-shouldered gin bottle with Gordon on the label...
...derived from Romeo's line on suicide by poison.* Through the intricate entanglements of silken society, Zelda Beale (Miriam Hopkins), U. S. girl, is inveigled into accepting Louis Brant (Charles Henderson), although drawn by love to Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof, giving a touch of finality to a diffused drama that was probably written to order and to formula in a hurry...
...other. . . . It is not quantity but quality that matters. It is not the quality of the whole, but of the last small wineglassful. Taking mean values, 1,480 c.c. are needed for a fool, 1,500 for an honest man. And on the average, a lady's cocktail saves us from inanity...
...justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail, one last swim...
...cocktail?" It did not seem to me quite right that I should let an old man break the ice for a cocktail in the middle of Harvard Yard on a frosty morning. Now if it had been summer or even fall, especially spring, I would have been able to give him my permission, for there is no ice then anyway...