Gibson Cocktail (1914, 1964)

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:11 PM -0400 8/21/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
>       ON WITH THE DANCE.
>        EUGENE BROWN..       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).
>Los Angeles, Calif.: Feb 13, 1914.                   p. II4 (1 page):
>    Pearlie is an authority on Egyptian cigarettes and knows exactly
>how much vermouth to mix in her Gibson cocktail--in fact she is a
>thoroughly modish and accomplished woman of fifteen summers and
>several hard falls, but thus far she has been overlooked by the
>great family journals and there has been no printer's ink
>illumination with Pearlie's toe flickering in the air like a
>pinwheel.

whence the "Pearl(ie) onion"!

L