When Judges Were Not Sober
Fearsome Cocktails Drunk in Paris “DECISION POSTPONED" (Australian and X Z. Press Association > Reed. 12.5 p.m. PARIS. Monday. “As sober as a judge’’ is no longer a true phrase when judges make the acquaintance of cocktails with such awesome names as "Knock-Me-Dottn” “Six-Cylinder,” “Lyddite Lucy," "Satan’s Sting.” These are only a few of dozens of new concoctions served up in a fashionable Paris hotel, where 400 guests had to judge a cocktail competition organised by two Parisian newspapers. It was no light ordeal, and it was not surprising as the afternoon wore on that some judges became hilarious and others green pallid, while women discreetly vanished. When the last mysterious mixture, called “Kill Me.” was quaffed all sense of discrimination was gone. Nobody was able to give a coherent opinion, so the decision was postponed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 9
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140When Judges Were Not Sober Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 9
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