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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...although all the observations are not unique with him, that fish are all short-sighted "because even in the best-lighted water no eyes can see very far," that all fish eyes are flat in front, that "fish are about all color blind" and can distinguish the colors of gay bait "only as various shades of grey, precisely as a color-blind person would." that fish can scarcely see anything below the level of their heads, that the pupils of fish eyes are almost always round, but never oval, that fish pupils contract only a little in strong light, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Face of the Future | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Under the headline HEAT WAVE STRIKES CITY, Ethel Waters, in a gay and gaudy martinique costume incinerates her audience with a thumping little tune with a haunting Caribbean lilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1933 | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...pair of roller skates. And Producer Carroll's "Most Beautiful Girls in the World," so pretty that it seems a pity they have to work, keep very little of themselves secret. Culminating the fan number ("Did you ever see such fans!" leers Comedian House), a Miss Gay Orlova arises attired in just barely enough (6 sq. in. of cellophane) to keep the police from stopping the performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Writers of insurance in 40 States, with 250,000 policy holders and nearly $1,000,000,000 of insurance in force, Missouri Life has been in hot water for some months. Rogers Clark Caldwell, Tennessee's meteoric financier, bought a 29% interest in it during the gay 1920's, sold his interest to Inter-Southern Insurance Co. When the Caldwell bubble burst, the Missouri State stock passed to Kentucky Home Life, last year was bought back by Herbert Hoover's friend Julius Howland Barnes, chairman of Insuran-shares Corp. Then it transpired that Missouri Life itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exit Missouri Life | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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