Word: cocktail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer a conktail to another in sheer exuberance of good feeling. If a man is so fortunate as still to possess the ingredients for cocktails, he will be calculating in disposing of them. There will be a few, a very few persons that he will deem worthy of admitting to cocktail fellowship. And even with them he will feel a niggardly reluctance gnawing at his heart as he distributes the dividends from the shaker. --The Graduates...
There are few cocktail-sippers among typical undergraduates. Those who drink do so not for the pleasure, but for the effect. It is the grand deflance of their abundant youth towards disaster. It is much as a rich man may throw away pennies, knowing that pennies make riches, but confident of the abundance of his resources...