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n. A cocktail made from gin or vodka mixed with a splash of vermouth
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Dry Martini is a 1928 film comedy produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation starring Mary Astor and Matt Moore. The Movietone sound system was used for music and sound effects but otherwise it is a silent film. A silent version was also made. Samuel L. Rothafel also contributed music for the film. It was adapted from the novel Dry Martini: a Gentleman Turns to Love by John Thomas. Ray Flynn was an assistant director.
This film is lost.
Usage examples of "dry martini".
She handed him a sheaf of telexes and letters and went to the cocktail bar to pour herself a dry martini.
She called Room Service for a large dry Martini and when it came she sat and smoked and played the gramophone and waited for 7.
There was a medium dry Martini with a piece of lemon peel waiting for him.
The difference between looking at your beloved through a dry martini straight up, where the glass is small, thin, and looking at her through a martini on the rocks, through thick- glass, and her face broken by the transparent cubism of the ice.
Reave and the Minstrel Boy ordered two more malts, while Renatta opted for a dry martini.
He spotted the money, but I still had to wait for another four customers to be served before I managed to secure the dry martini and a Scotch on the rocks for myself.
See you later in the Pineapple Bar for a dry martini that's half a jumbo olive.
Half an hour and one more double dry martini later, their luncheon came.
What it was was that Clara worked her way back with the cocktails-she knew mine, an extra-dry martini with a twist of lemon-and I moved the papers out of her way out of politeness, and then she showed up with the hors d'oeuvres and I put them back in my bag out of hunger, and then I had to decide how I wanted my tournedos, and it took almost two hours for dinner, including the wine and the B & B.