Word: cocktails
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Likewise the stage has found that the public has wearied of cocktail-drinking damsels who kiss and tell their mothers unashamed. But not the movies. Still the stories come...
Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard...
...pretty and accomplished young lady (Frieda Inescort), who is continually referred to as "that superlative creature," is married to a drink and dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...
...certain of the referees to the post of leading U. S. comedienne. Though this seems a stiff jump to take on so slight a steed as Grounds for Divorce, there can be no doubt that what spirit the play developed she supplied. If the comedy had been a champagne cocktail, she would have played the bubbles...
...French Academy-the 40 most learned men in France who meet in L'Institut de France and guard the purity of the French language with the vigilance of a duenna-decreed that the word "cocktail" has no place on the tongue of the Frenchman. Not even was coquetcle, a substitute compromise, allowed. The word is outlawed. Georges Clemenceau, "The Tiger," was interviewed in Vendee. He stood under an oak and said: "This is my old friend. A little older than I. It has lived 2,000 years...