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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ministers, most of whom are ostracized in Russia as "Capitalist spies," sat in their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic and full of statistics, who signs decrees for the State while Stalin signs them for the Party. Stalin's Front Man, gay and juicy old President Mikhail Kalinin, whom Ambassador Bullitt called "charming." Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff whose bright-eyed children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Colonial Bullitt | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from the King, with menaces," one Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon, 43, unemployed engineer and War veteran, was committed for trial in Old Bailey court last week by a reluctant Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Dec. 25, 1933 | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...Andrews calling Newark. Weather thick. At 1,800 ft. but I'm going upstairs." That was Pilot Harold Gay Andrews. In the next 15 minutes each spoke in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Ice | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play in The Women in His Life, the final telephone call in Counsellor at Law. Good shot: Clive Brook's one gay moment, when he throws coins to a beggar and advises him to spend the afternoon begetting children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows two of the best dramatic actors in the U. S. cinema spreading their talents thickly upon slapstick scenes. Samples: Lionel Barrymore eating a cold duck with indigestive grunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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