Word: stag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovery that it's smart to be bawdy may possibly be credited to magazine artists of the Arno-Soglow-Klein-Steig school. In The New Yorker their drawings are politely risque. In published albums (like Stag at Eve) they are elegantly ribald. From its first issue last summer Ballyhoo capitalized the discovery that smut, when smart, could tap an unashamed market. It based its appeal chiefly upon the business of making fun of the advertising business, but knew and pursued the sale value of scatology...
...when she enters the Chamber at all. For who better than she should know the alarm with which women are viewed by the members of the Greatest Club in the World? She better than most people could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel shy about spitting their tobacco juice in a lady's presence. The Greatest Club will be changed...
...wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession to friends, does not like the theatre, hates formal entertaining. But he never misses a good prizefight. At stag parties his songs start early, are famed & frequent. Just as many a tycoon seeks relaxation in reading, playing a violin, constructing ship models or painting. Mr. Joyce has his escape mechanism. When he wants to be alone he buys a couple of apples, rides for an hour...
Statesman Stimson hesitated to ask Mother League to dance. His first idea was that she alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
...general public, Re searcher Kettering deserves fame as inventor of the self-starter (first used Cadillac), as an important contributor the perfection of Duco, Ethyl Frigidaire. Surrounded at home and work by strange mechanical devices simplify life.* Mr. Kettering has that the chief block to progress is the stag nancy of human minds. Less diabolic it first sounds is his theory that and dissatisfaction are the best forces for improvement and progress. week he reiterated his credo that is "a method of keeping everybody reasonably dissatisfied with what...