[Ads-l] "hugging bee" -- not in DARE

[George Thompson]

            The Kingston Freeman says that at a "hugging bee" for the
benefit of a church along the Upper Hudson, a few evenings since, a man,
while blindfolded, hugged his wife for several minutes without knowing who
he was hugging.  When he did find out he wanted his fifteen cents back.

            Rockland County Journal (Nyack, N. Y.), February 16, 1889

1889-02-16a -- Rockland County Journal (Nyack, N. Y.)


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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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