Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later that the boss was just kidding...
Last Tuesday evening this correspondent was privileged to attend the annual meeting of the Ivy League Chowder and Martini Society, otherwise known as the Harvard Club Football Smoker. Gaffers of all ages from Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale and Princeton gathered in the Commonwealth Avenue hall to listen to four gentlemen expound on their teams-or so it said on the program...
Those who are supposed to be in the know think the Harvard baseball team is going to start hitting like the fourth Martini one of these days. So far, the Crimson has lost four games by two runs and one by one run; a couple of timely hits would have turned these five defeats into five victories...
...escape, either: fresh-laundered sheets may have bits of cornstarch sticking to them; the bedroom chair may have been put together with fish glue. If a man drinks gin, he may suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg, orange or lemon peel...
...rates. Tenants were handed their revised bills once, and sometimes twice, each day. On the tenth floor of the Oikwan were the U.S. diplomats, while on the sixth were the Russians. In between were representatives of the French, British, Dutch and Burmese governments. Said one diplomat over an Oikwan Martini: "This is where the third world war is starting...