Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro policemen and a dozen frock-coated ushers, some 4,000 U. S. Negroes marched briskly into St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan one day last week. At the head were the Knights of St. John, perspiring in gay full dress and cocked hats with long white feathers. St. Benedict's Commandery followed, with its Ladies' Auxiliary in blue-sashed white dresses; then small pickaninnies, the white-veiled Children of Mary, led by Negro nuns; at the end, many a Negro member of the Holy Name and St. Vincent de Paul societies. The 4,000 Negroes were...
...does about writing plays. His picture is really a "color story" rather than the melodrama which it sometimes attempts to be or the soft satiric comedy which it could have been. The slight romance between Linden and a kind-hearted chorus girl (Joan Blondell); his associa tion with a gay and amazingly unresourceful confidence man (Walter Catlett): the bravado of his return to Willow Creek are incidents which a more astute playwright might have been able to develop without recourse to such familiar props of metropolitan melodrama as a slain chorus girl, a gimlet-eyed detective on the wrong track...
...Chicago's artists swarmed into Grant Park, set their pictures on park benches or the ground and stood ready for buyers. Of the 200, able painters were Ivan Lorraine and Malvin Marr Albright, Mrs. Vivian Hoyt and Raymond Katz. In a welter of bad art, the artists were gay, buyers tolerant. Young buyers bought nudes, older ones "parlor pieces" of still life and landscape, totaling over $1,000 a day. Finally hoboes and Illinois Central commuters so jammed Grant Park that the park commissioners moved the artists oh" the grass onto the red-paved square in front...
...bearded Richard Dana, 61, who claims to be the nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana (New York Sun) and Miss Octavia Dockery, 60, daughter of a Confederate brigadier. Years ago the Merrills, Danas and Dockerys all moved in the same social circle of Natchez. "Dick" Dana, a gay young blade, suddenly retired to "Glenwood," his family's 90- year-old plantation home, a quarter mile from "Glenburney." Miss Dockery, unable to make a living by writing verse, moved in as his housekeeper, raised chickens, milked cows. Dana was mentally unbalanced. He used to wander into the woods...
Vines, when he ambled out, seemed to have the same idea. Wearing his white flannel cap, he was as nonchalant as usual against a Borotra who still had his blue beret but seemed to have lost some of the gay bounce that used to go with it. Borotra broke Vines's serve in the first game, rushed the net steadily on his own, hit his volleys crisp and hard. He took the first set 6-4. Borotra waited till Vines had him 4-2 in the third set before he stopped running for hard shots, let Vines have...