Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auctioneer, they agreed, had been lucky. He never would have got such prices for Belmont's nags if it had not been the afternoon before Derby Day when everyone was feverish and even the yellow dogs of Kentucky, feeling the spring of the year, carried their tails gay...
...Filipinos are not capable of using wisely the self-government they now have. This was indicated by the corruption (laughable if not so serious) which occurred during 1916-21 under the Jones Act before General Wood arrived to check the gay career of the politicians...
...altogether happy. Every month he has to worry his head and fret and fuss over what there is new to divert gay, witty, accomplished people; ,what new to furnish people who would like to be thought gay, witty, accomplished. The little man is an editor, Mr. Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair...
...Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius for cooking." The entire atmosphere of the place would be "gay, spirited, diverting"; above all, "decent." Their club would be "The Embassy Club of New York," to open in October...
...gay christening party proceeded to lunch with the shipbuilders, where speeches were made telling how the U. S. S. Saratoga could cross the Atlantic in four days, could supply electric current for a huge city, cost $45,000,000, will carry 72 planes, is an unprecedented monster (TIME...