Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come, and it did, when Mr. Green would receive a jolt. A Baptist who never smoked or drank, he has lately begun to take a dry Martini or two before dinner, a definite concession to good fellowship with newshawks, few of whom are teetotalers. After resolutely refusing for 13 years to let any one take press relations out of his stiffening fingers, last August he hired a new press agent-Philip Pearl, an experienced reporter with a wide acquaintance among Washington correspondents...
...Verona, Italy, Domenico Pinterle and Luigi Martini decided to duel, respectively selected a spade, a pickax...
...guests stranded without food or heat, room, telephone or elevator service. At the Palace, Cinemactor Jean Hersholt lugged his bags down eight flights to the lobby, where he was met by the manager with a handtruck. Best prepared for the emergency was the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Nino Martini. Gallantly manning an elevator, he explained that he had learned how during New York City's elevator strike last year...
Hotel Statler--Nye Mayhew is making a hit; a Martini, a lobster dinner and a dance are suggested...
...Pass down my Dry Martini...