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Leap Day Cocktails Lost to Time

Drinks passé, along with Sadie Hawkins-style man-chasing

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 29, 2008 11:27 AM CST

(Newser) – Feb. 29 still comes once every four years, but celebratory cocktails marking the bissextile have gone out of fashion—along with a leap-year tradition that requires plenty of liquid courage, Eric Felten notes in the Wall Street Journal. Women who proposed marriage during the leap...   Read full story »

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