Word: doe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social matters, the traditional masculine yoke was removed and the girls were given their chance. They were allowed to request the company of a favored gentleman "without the least embarrassment", and to enjoy generally the "freedom" of masculine life. The dances had a well-filled stag, or more correctly, doe line, and the men were left to their own devices to attract the necessary attention...
...John Doe," 24, 5 ft. 8 in., light complexion, posing as a college student, for the murder of a gas station attendant...
Seattle. "John Doe," 27, 5 ft. 7 in., dark for the murder of a policeman...
...Africa the current champion of Europe, a Negro, challenges all white men. Into the ring springs Otho, feeling himself a new "white hope." In the tenth round Otho remembers his family motto "Up, Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
...procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...