Word: stag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waltzes & Polkas. The original horn fanfares were used to signal the different stages of the hunt to riders in the field, e.g., stag at bay, hounds hunt a game unknown, withdrawal from the field. Under Louis XV horn players became more ceremonious, began to specialize in elaborate fanfares signaling such things as the "Salute to the Queen" and the appearance of "The Ladies' Carriage." The ladies were provided with their own little horns with which to answer the bucks in the field. By the 18th century horn buffs were experimenting with waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. In some...
Since becoming CNO, Burke has held regular stag dinners for young Navy lieutenants in his Observatory Hill quarters off Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. After dinner Burke lights up and asks the lieutenants to talk. They do-and next morning the memos flow to Burke's aides...
...Committee on Visual Arts proposed a 600-person theatre, accompanied by a small, 200-person theatre which would specialize in developing the talents of students interested in the stag. The building would also house the offices of the various theatrical groups active in the College. This proposal combines the actual audience theatre with the experimental, project-type stage, while the faculty plans are concerned primarily with the instructive aspects of a new theatre...
...first place to speed her recovery from childhood polio. Poised and sure in her dark rose sweater, red flowers bright against her bobbed blonde hair, she swung into her free-skating routine. Gliding to the beat of a bright Offenbach medley, she picked up speed and leaped into a stag (a twisting jump in which the skater takes off backwards, turns, and sails forward, back arched and trailing leg extended...
...looked ruddy and fit. It had been a pleasant vacation-within-a-vacation: Ike had taken it easy, fishing in the chilly water of St. Louis Creek, dabbling at his painting, and demonstrating his prowess as a mess sergeant by preparing all the meals for the stag party. He put the camp on a two-big-meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold...