Word: stag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminine control of 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...
...clock Wednesday afternoon the President and the Prime Minister bade their official farewells. That evening, unofficially, they disported together at a stag dinner given by Secretary of State Stimson. Contrary to precedent is it for U. S. presidents to accept informal social invitations, but President Hoover, to make a final friendly gesture, flouted the ceremonious rule...
Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...
Charles ("Chic") Sale is a vaudeville entertainer. The Specialist is one of his monologs, usually reserved by him for stag gatherings. Printed privately several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
...Conscience that must burble out in a confession of his imposture to the first passing peasant. After a glorious triumph on the head of that imposture (presentation to the "future" Queen of France of Leon Daudet's royalists); after a royal hunt in which he stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling in the dust. null who sets off in hot pursuit on her bicycle, is downed...