1931 Shake'em Up a Practical Handbook of Polite Drinking (3rd printing)

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daffy-diUys, the olive thingumbobs, the caviar and chutney willy-wallys are apportioned with loving care to just those drinks which Heaven Intended Them For. 3. It is a polite book. The complicated prob– lems of etiquette raised by the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment are solved here. There is a formula for disposition of the m.iest who . arrives cold sober after the party is well on its way. The Bottle for a Certain Purpose is described for the benefit of Him Who Is His Own Worst Enemy~ . 4. It is a humane book. It suggests preven– tive and remedial tre~tment for those unfortu– nates who refuse to profit by its urbanities. It tells what to do for the guest who Knew He Shouldn't Have Mixed His Drinks, for the one who has a Bad Fall while tap-dancing on the piano, for the Clumsy Fool who couldn't broil the goldfish without burning his thumb. If these can be saved, it tells how to save therp.; if they are sodden in their ways, it tells how to render them innocuous without resorting to the ungentle expedient of the Left Hook.

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