Word: stag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wonder C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, 40, short, sturdy World War II veteran and state attorney general, led jubilant Republicans into Democrat Frank Lausche's old statehouse precincts as 18 shivering bands marched through the 15° Columbus cold, later made the rounds of a stag smoker, public reception, a three-part inaugural ball. Chief reason for G.O.P. cheerfulness: a friendly press, a cooperative legislature...
...foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling. At 1 o'clock one morning last week the stars winked out for the last time; the following night Roseland reopened in glittering new quarters...
Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded...
...possible for Mr. Stevenson or any other man to satisfactorily handle the stag gering responsibilities of the presidency with out the loving care of a devoted wife...
...hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists were saying-that Comrade Khrushchev had come to Yugoslavia for bigger game than that...