Word: stag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circle game, drew something too conservative for his tastes. jack Boggess sized it up with "resembling the third baseman for the Braves." After the tenth dance or so Tom broke away with his best "Won't you please excuse me," and limped away to rejoin a much amused stag line...
...Readers Basilico, Jaffe, et al. never hear, then, of the great Finn MacCool (TIME, Nov. 1) ? He was well known to have lepped the width of Ireland (115 Sassenach miles) in three jumps, and could outrun a hare or a stag itself, and he merely moving his legs gently, the way he'd be restoring his circulation...
France was a house of dead and missing -a million in German war prisons, a million and a half drafted for work in Germany, another 400,000 interned in France. France was hungry and sick. France stag- gered under debt and inflation. France was a land despoiled...
...were members or friends of the ten-year-old Baker Street Irregulars (hosts at the Murray Hill dinner), a strictly stag club with branches in Boston, Chicago and Akron. Its two officers bear strictly Holmesian titles: President Christopher Morley is Gasogene-&-Tantalus (Holmes kept his whiskey in a tantalus, his soda water in a gasogene); Secretary-Treasurer Edgar W. Smith is Buttons (pageboy in several Holmes stories). Franklin Roosevelt is an Honorary Irregular. This was the first dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars to which women have been invited...
...almost uniformly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to parties by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...