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...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...
...Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor for it was insistent. Then for three-quarters...
...overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy, "had a curve to it." Middle-Aged Quivers. One day Lily B. met an old schoolmate and he asked her and Oleander to be the hostesses on a stag party to the Kentucky Derby. To her own and the reader's surprise, Lily agreed. Said she, "I'd be a fish out of water trying to run a house party...
Last week a woman asked Columnist Haworth for advice on how to keep her errant husband home. Among other things, she was told: "Your husband's encroaching predilection for ganging up with a stag party to loaf his nights away in cocktail lounges, buying drinks for bevies of uniformed women ... is spendthrift carousing...
Finn MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...