Word: stag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sale of tickets will begin Monday, when both stag and couple admissions will be sold for $6. Yardlings will get the first chance to buy these, as sale in the Houses will not begin until a later date...
...breakfast was going on, a Greyhound bus driver named Louie 42 miles away had spotted among his passengers a good-looking girl who "in some subtle way smelled of sex." She had made a living stripping at stag parties for businessmen. Louie had a reputation for making time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready...
Princess Elizabeth, who recently went shooting in Invernesshire, drew a reproachful look from The League Against Cruel Sports. Wrote the League's secretary : "My committee greatly regrets your action in shooting a stag for sport, particularly in view of your connection with the Girl Guide movement, whose sixth law states that a Guide is a friend to animals...
Yoshinobu Takabe, in his Dictionary of American English, tried his own hand at word coining and joining. Samples: sexploration, eujifferous (impressive), chew a lone Nabisco (go stag...
...coast in 1564, and was told to map and paint what he saw. A Spanish expedition wiped out the colony within a year, but Le Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...