1933 The Bon Vivant's Companion by George A Zabriskie

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Flanagan's rooster. Yet it may be that all this happened in Peggy Van Eyck's Cock's Tail Tavern in Yonkers, as another story runs. The grave antiquarian, IsaacMarkens, preferred to believe that the decodtion first saw light as early as 1652 in the Tavern of Peter Cock, which stood where No. 1 Broadway is now. Another delver into things historic,Appleton Morgan, rejeded these theories and insisted that the name "cock tail" was applied to a mixed drink because of the color and shape of the arch formed when expert bartenders tossed the liquors from one tumbler to another. Whatever the truth, the name of the drink was estab lished early enough for its use by Hawthorne in "The Blithedale Romance," by Fenimore Cooper in "The Spy," by Hughes in "Tom Brown," and by Thackeray in "The Newcomes." Dr. Tardieu may be right, but let him prove it. And if he is wrong he has at least brought once more to the fo rum of the world a great question. Before the origin of the cocktail vanishes in the " twilight of fable " let the truth be captured.