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Another delver into things historic, Appleton Morgan, re
jected these theories and insisted that the name "cocktail" 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 established
early enough for its use by Hawthorne in "The Blithedale
Romance," by Fenimore Cooper in "The Spy," by Hughes
in "TomBrown," and by Thackeray in "The Newcomes."
Dr. Tardieu maybe right, but let him prove it. And if he is
wrong he has at least brought once more to the forum of the
world a great question. Before the origin of the cocktail van
ishes in the "twilight of fable" let the truth be captured.
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