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That said, “it’s a work in progress,” said Jack Maypole, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center and father to three.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2020
The meeting was held in the Maypole pub next to the ADC theatre, home of the Footlights.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2019
T-shirts -- swarmed around the grinning golfer as if he were a Maypole.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2013
Saturday-Sunday, Maypole dance and May Queen, 4:30 p.m.; lunch available noon-3 p.m., dinner banquet, 6 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2012
One day in early April, during recess, Mrs. Butler ushered us outside on the playground and measured us for the Maypole dance.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
I detailed my near-worship of “A Time to Keep,” my attempts to replicate the Pumpkin House of “The Dolls’ Christmas,” the wonky maypole I had rigged up in the yard.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2024
The traditional Scandinavian holiday of Midsummer welcomes it with maypole dancing, drinking, and romance.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 19, 2023
We're also surrounded by frilly curtains and a maypole adorned with police tape and anti-pigeon spikes.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
Rather, it’s when a birch tree maypole descends from the skies and Soo leads the chorus in an exhilarating “The Lusty Month of May.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
There was the Distaff Dance, a maypole without men, held in the spring.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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