Word: tanqueray
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...fishing village. Though most of the residents are Negroes, racial tensions are minimal. Litter is as uncommon as unemployment and crime. In the past decade, the burgeoning tourist trade has brought luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and chic stores. A free port provides luxuries at low prices: a fifth of Tanqueray gin sells for $1.85 v. $5.98 in New York...
...Martini (dry vermouth and blackberry brandy), the Brave Bull (tequila and Kahlua) and the Blue Blazer (mulled brandy, Southern Comfort and water). Washingtonians are drinking a new depth charge called the Kraatz No. 1 Special, invented by Hawaiian Businessman Donald Kraatz. The recipe: pour an almost-full tumbler of Tanqueray's gin over ice, add minute but equal amounts of Schweppe's quinine water and Rose's lime juice...
...manners, ugly dances like the Charleston, and ugliest of all ... the self-pity of the young intellectuals, 'the Lost Generation.' " But she was spared, she said. She was too busy to really notice. Most of her shows were hits -Déclassée, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Constant Wife, The Kingdom of God. After 14 years, her marriage to Russell G. Colt of the firearms family had ended in divorce, and she was devoting herself to her three children and to the theater. She was 43 when she played Shakespeare's 14-year-old heroine...
When the Second Mrs. Tanqueray was originally presented, it shocked Victorian audiences out of their buttoned boots. The play pointed up the fact that a lady can't roll in the hay and then expect to live in the manor. Although Sir Arthur Wing Pinero laced his drama with many a tight homily and saw to it that his Paula's past caught up with her in the end, the uniform reaction of audiences was one of shocked disapproval. Produced during the same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned...
Telescoped from four into three acts by Producer Cheryl Crawford, directed fairly briskly by Romney Brent, Maplewood's Second Mrs. Tanqueray afforded Tallulah Bankhead plenty of opportunities to show her deft dramatic stuff. As she whirled through her paces, the inevitable squeaks of the revival's old joints were hardly audible...