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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horseshoe flings a gay revue of yesteryear, all fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Despite a strong last chukker rally which netted them six goals, the Harvard polo team found itself on the short end of a 12 to 7 score to a hard-riding Eli quartet in New Harvard Saturday, Gay Dillingham of Harvard was the game's individual star with six goals, and Yale's Captain Johnson was a defensive standout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Malletmen Lose to Yale 12-7 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Flat Trio for Clarinet, 'Cello, and Piano" and closes with the Mozart "String Quintet" (two violas), the rest of the program is made up of modern works: "Choros II for Flute and Clarinet" by Villa-Lobos, a short rhythmical piece of great difficulty; "Three Counterpoints" by Honegger, which are gay pieces in spite of their academic form; and the second performance of Piston's "Sonata for Violin and Piano" (Mr. Piston will be at the piano...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

...opposing political and economic systems. Nearing Rio de Janeiro from the North on the U. S. light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Visitors | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Snug in a chateau facing Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, students of Geneva College for Women had a gay time talking French as well as English, dropping in on the League of Nations, making the most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Geneva to Greenwich | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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