There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

She had changed into a cocktail dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck.

A definition of cocktail appeared in the May 13, 1806, edition of The Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York, in which an answer was provided to the question, " What is a cocktail ?".

The first publication of a bartenders ' guide which included cocktail recipes was in 1862 — How to Mix Drinks ; or, The Bon Vivant's Companion, by " Professor " Jerry Thomas.

The first " cocktail party " ever thrown was allegedly by Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1917.

The only certainty is that this cocktail was first sipped in Cuba.

A cocktail party was held at the Gardens Restaurant at 4311 Magnolia Avenue in Burbank, California.

Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised.

The name " Molotov cocktail " was coined by the Finns during the Winter War.

The " Molotov cocktail " was the Finns ' response – " a drink to go with the food ".

The fuel for the Molotov cocktail was refined to a slightly sticky mixture of gasoline, kerosene, tar, and potassium chlorate.

The original design of the Molotov cocktail was a mixture of ethanol, tar and gasoline in a bottle.

The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.

The first alleged use of the specific name " Old Fashioned " was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen ’ s club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Don Ramon has worked with the best places in Buenos Aires and associated with ' Papillon ' the most luxurious bar in Carcao and was also recognized for his cocktail recipe books.

In Star Wars, a Sonic Servodriver was a cocktail composed of Sullustan gin, Old Janx Spirit, and spicebrew.

This was distinguished from the Gin Fizz cocktail in that the 3 dashes of lemon juice in the Gin Fizz was " fizzed " with carbonated water to essentially form a ' Gin and Sodawater ' whereas the considerably more " juice of a small lemon " in the Tom Collins essentially formed a ' Gin and Sparkling Lemonade ' when sweetened with the gum syrup.

Byron's poetry was highly influential in introducing Europe to the heady cocktail of Romanticism in exotic Oriental settings which was to dominate 19th century Oriental art.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

In the 1930s, head bartender Fernand Petiot, introduced the Bloody Mary cocktail.

His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison.

Since 1949, the most common method has been execution by firing squad, which has been largely superseded by lethal injection, using the same three-drug cocktail pioneered by the United States, introduced in 1996.

In addition to inventing fruit cocktail, he introduced the Spanish olive to food processing and was responsible for apricot nectar.

He argues that the Tasmanian Aboriginal population was devastated by a lethal cocktail of introduced diseases to which they had little or no resistance due to their isolation from the mainland and the rest of humanity for thousands of years.

Watch people flock to amusement houses, cocktail lounges, and night clubs that advertise continuous entertainment, which means an endless flow of noise and frivolity by paid entertainers who are supposed to perform in those incredible ways which are designed to give men a few hours of dubious relaxation -- watch them and you can tell that many of them are running away from something.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

The cocktail has a relatively low alcohol content ( about 10 percent alcohol by volume ).

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

The original design of the Molotov cocktail produced by the Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko during the Winter War of 1939 – 40.

The Old Fashioned is a type of cocktail made by muddling dissolved sugar with bitters then adding alcohol, such as whiskey or brandy, and a twist of citrus rind.

Dinner parties are often preceded by a cocktail hour in a living room or bar, where guests drink cocktails while mingling and conversing.

The three main flavors are ready salted, cheese & onion, and salt & vinegar ; however, other examples are prawn cocktail, Worcestershire sauce ( known by Walkers as Worcester Sauce ), roast chicken, steak & onion, smoky bacon, lamb & mint, ham & mustard, barbecue, BBQ rib, tomato ketchup, sausage & ketchup, pickled onion, Branston Pickle, and Marmite.

The Rob Roy is a cocktail created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.

Nowadays, in the U. S., you are less likely to see májiàng being played before the banquet ; it is often replaced by a cocktail party.

:" I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.

His opposition to appeasement was nourished by his witnessing first-hand a Nuremberg Rally in 1937, where he met top Nazis Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler at an SS cocktail party.

* While legend suggests that Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt was killed by a snake bite, many historians actually believe that she committed suicide by swallowing a lethal drug cocktail made of opium, Aconitum, and hemlock, a highly poisonous plant from the parsley family.

Willis will also join Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Lay the Favorite, directed by Stephen Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler.

Modern research on attention began with the analysis of the " cocktail party problem " by

The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

Mass rioting broke out on December 9 after a Palestinian teen was shot dead by an Israeli soldier after having thrown a Molotov cocktail at an army patrol.