Word: stag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince and President shook hands. They stood at attention outside the White House door while a Navy band played the Belgian anthem and The Star-Spangled Banner. Then they went inside for a formal tea. Later, there was a white-tie stag dinner.* The party broke up early...
...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...
Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...
...always a surrealist at heart," Gugel says, "When I was a child I drew all kinds of transformations. Things like Daphne turning into a tree, and Actaeon into a stag. Surrealism is a very beneficial revolution in painting. It results in conscious exploitation of elements which used to be overlooked because of bourgeois shame...
...system permits game-by-game seating flexibility, granting each man the chance for a better seat part of the time. Already, Class rather than House priority has proved both more fair and accommodating. And the early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well...