Word: stag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer bachelor since his wife and daughter went back to Independence, Harry Truman took two nights off for stag parties. He attended a dinner for his old friend Leslie L. ("Biff") Biffle, secretary of the Senate, and went out to Washington's swank Burning Tree Country Club, where he was initiated as the club's newest member. Over the weekend he cruised down the Potomac...
...Nazis won twelve Reich stag seats; in 1930 they...
...Ornately framed pictures of Betsy Ross and "The Stag at Bay," plus a standard array of wood-bound "Our Baby" scrapbooks, snowfall paperweights, "Million Bubble Baths" (six fragrances...
Egypt's Tutankhamen collected walking sticks; Hermann Wilhelm Göring collects stag antlers. You can never tell what a collector is going to collect or why. A woman in Richmond avidly collects toy elephants- for the excellent reason that her name is Mrs. L. E. Fant. The ferocious Ferrante, King of Naples, was fond of collecting his political enemies, whom he had executed, stuffed and mounted, and kept tastefully arrayed in a special room in his palace...
...note, however, was injected by one unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...