Sour (cocktail) claims the White Lady (gin, Cointreau, fresh lemon juice). The recipe appears in his "Savoy Cocktail Book", published in 1930. Joe Gilmore, former Head Barman at The Savoy, says this was one of Laurel and Hardy's favorite drinks. In John le Carré's 1965 novel "The Looking Glass War", British spy and main protagonist Fred Leiser's favorite drink is a White Lady, and he makes several attempts to get other agents to try the cocktail. In Dorothy Sayers' mystery novel "Have His Carcase" Lord Peter has a White Lady when he hears about his "Lady" Miss Harriet Vane being in trouble
Bronx (cocktail) account of Solon's own story of the Creation of the Bronx: Solon would have created the cocktail sometime between 1899 (when he joined the establishment) and 1906 (when the word first appeared in print.) However, a prior reference to a "Bronx Cocktail" on a New York hotel menu indicates that either the name was already in use or Solon was not the original inventor. Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, said that his first drink of alcohol that he could remember was the "Bronx cocktail", given to him by a "socialite" at a party right during World War I.