Word: stags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence of eyes, the spirit of the forest watching...
Despite the swarming hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...
...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
Ikeda, a stocky man with a hoarse voice who recovered from a near-fatal skin disease in the 1930s, proved highly durable on the Washington ceremonial circuit. He chatted, via interpreter, with President Kennedy at the White House, made a hit at a stag luncheon given by Vice President Johnson by expressing, with deep feeling, Japan's appreciation for U.S. financial aid. Ikeda spent an afternoon in discussions with Rusk and aides in the State Department, and he and his pretty kimono-clad wife Mitsue and three daughters were guests at a Japan-America Society reception...
...like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph album of her coming-out will forever record...