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...previous years the price of admission for couples to the Spread has ranged from $5.50 to $7, but 1940's party will cost only $4.50 per couple, $3.50 stag. About 270 couples are expected, White said: however, "a good many more can be accomodated...
...stag" in the London market is a broker who subscribes for bonds not to fill orders on his books but believing he can resell them to laggards at a slightly higher price for small but quick profit. Sir John, by offering only 3% (some British loans in World War I paid 5%), had left the disgusted stags too thin a margin on which to operate. In City jargon the Chancellor was "trying it on the hard way," but when two top-hatted, scarlet-coated minions of the Bank of England swung its portals wide his confidence was justified. In went...
Offices which are to be filled are those of President of the Class. Vice-President Secretary, and Treasurer. If elected, the President and his assistants will choose the heads of the Jubilee, monster Yardling dance in the spring, and of the Smoker, annual free stag party for first-year men, at which notables of the stage and sporting worlds entertain in Memorial Hall...
...fire. Reclaimed by a well-placed shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl in The Fighting 69th, luscious Priscilla Lane having been withdrawn at zero hour from the stag cast by what seems a prudent studio decision...
...Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...