1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

that- promptly at midnight Ted Husing, in a gold lame tailcoat, will shoot Bill Corum right in the lobby and that after that a chorus of unearthly Powers models will distribute platinum ciga– rette cases to the gentlemen present and platina fox stoles to the ladies. Meanwhile the accustomed and initiate patrons go about their >business; ofkgulping a·nd guzzling the best food and drink ever ·, ,, serteditt ~ily : NewYork night club since Lillian Russell was a tot, • 1 'iiu'd whaf they gwp and gu.z;zie is the concern of this particular and ... sc~orni'ly thesis; . . • · I. • ·' : ': A~ has be~n sug~ested elsewhere, human determination and free wiI1 'befog wbat the!y 'are, there is no regulating what drinks will · stiitHi~; ~aste of~hom at wha; hour," and the best that can be done · 'is to marshal the resources of Cookie's bar in something that may be a reasonable ~imi.ilacrum of sound taste and probable demand. Scores.of patrons of the Stork; after all, command nothing stronger · than Poland .wate~ ci~ ' lemon squash, but they are not the proper c~n?~~p pf ·~h~ :~o~ent . ...'f;he approach of the dinner hour, which in New York varies be~w~Il seven o'clock and midnight, is the signal for unloosing ... Ni:c,i~~~~,Of: Sc~t~l} ~nd soda and cloudbursts of Martinis and old– fashic;meds... And H you object to the fruit salad, festoons of ma,r;,t~~hin~r~h~rries! .Bots~ and jetsam of orange rind and canopies of Japanes~ ~arasols and American flags which are served with old– fashic;me4 f?OCktails in many places, it is possible to obviate all this nuisanee. v4ltJe by simply asking for a bourbon toddy. At Jack Blee.ck'$ Artists and Writers saloon hard by the Herald Tribune and in.such !Hellywood outposts as Mike Romanofls and Dave Chasen's, it is known for Iio discoverable reason as a "gag", but its common term. is hour.hon toddy and by such it goes elsewhere in the land.

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