Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franco Singed. Spain's dictator Primo de Rivera wept when Major Ramon Franco, balked transatlantic flyer, was found (TIME, July 8). He praised the flyer on his gay return to Spain. Last week he singed his wings, dismissed him from the Spanish flying service, returned him to the infantry?because Major Franco used an Italian plane and French meteorological information for his flight...
Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...
...greater proportion of the prisoners seem to have become accustomed to their lot. Most of them, especially those convicted of capital crimes, are carefree and gay. . . . Their treatment by the guards, mostly trusted prisoners, is humane. Corporal punishment has long since been abolished by the Governor of the island...
...GAY-Blithe dialog by Rachel Crothers about divorce and remarriage (TIME, MARCH...
...London last week, Peggy O'Neill, old-time Irish-American actress, had just finished starring in Merry, Merry, a London hit, and was feeling gay and affluent, when from her flat near Cadogan Square $10,000 worth of jewels disappeared...