cock-tail

Anybody else hear that Obama was to busy with a cock-tail party when this happened!

Another "attack" 2009

Anybody else hear that Obama was to busy with a cock-tail party when this happened!

Another "attack" 2009

One of the earliest (though no doubt apocryphal) tales of the invention of this distinctively American drink has a patriotic Revolutionary barmaid named Betty Flanagan plucking the tail-feathers from a Tory's prize roosters and using them to adorn drinks in her tavern -- thus the name "cock-tail."

Consider the Trimmings 2008

In 1806, Harry Croswell, editor of the Balance, a Federalist newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley, ribbed a Democratic-Republican candidate for losing his Statehouse bid, proclaiming the man's defeat a remarkable achievement given that the hopeful had handed out some 1,500 drinks to voters, among them 300 glasses of a new-fangled concoction called a "cock-tail."

Cocktails for Candidates 2008

Clara would have looked at that cock-tail Barney Newcome?

The Newcomes 2006

But this weekend, I am free from my tot-tail as opposed to cock-tail waitress role and can sit at the computer until my butt gets numb.

Archive 2006-07-01 Kate 2006

But this weekend, I am free from my tot-tail as opposed to cock-tail waitress role and can sit at the computer until my butt gets numb.

Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: This girl knows how to have FUN! Kate 2006

The distance to ride is seven miles, and the time one hour; but in the United States, you are aware, every chap will "do as he best pleases;" consequently, there is a little information to be obtained from the fresh arrival, a cock-tail with a friend or two, a quiet piling on of luggage, &c.; all this takes

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

And a few Yankee phrases are pasted into Mr. Sludge's talk, such as "stiffish cock-tail," "V-notes," "sniggering," allusions to "Greeley's newspaper," Beacon Street, etc.: there is no character in them at all.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"Have a 'cock-tail,' Miss Rolleston?" said Captain Wilmot, of the

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston