Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard year; the gift of the twenty-five year class has been reduced by $50,000; those in charge of reunions have been whittling the cost per man down from the neighborhood of $60 to $20. And these uniforms which enable gay graduates to appear as farmers, highlanders, marines, or Flits cost sometimes as much as two dollars. It would thus be a not inconsiderable saving in the enterprising class's budget had they negotiated the deal which would have given them Fitting costumes free of charge. The plan to turn the prestige of a Harvard class day to saving...
Germany's touted Lilian Harvey is a gay open-faced little girl (85 lb., 5 ft. 1 in.) who is willing to make faces and can dance. She is 23, born in Muswell Hill, a London suburb, of a German father and English mother. Her parents chose May 1914 to go to Germany for a vacation. She has since lived in Central Europe, studied dancing under Mary Zimmerman, was discovered in Vienna by German Cinema Director Richard Eichberg...
Tonight's program at "Pops" will be a repetition of the "Gay Ninties Night" with many costumes reminiscent of the 1890's expected to be in evidence. The program will be as follows: "Charge of the Light Bridge," Spindler; "Invitation to the Dance," Webber-Berlioz; "Pianoforte Solo" (Selected by Mr. Jesus Maria Sanroma); "Overture to William Tell," Rossini; "S Kommt ein Vogel Geflogen," by Ochs; "News Flashes of the Ninties," Magic Lantern; "Jolly Fellow Walz," Vollstedt; "The Fortune Teller," Herbert; "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Knight; popular song hits (Tara-ra-Boom-de-ay. The Bowery, The Sidewalks...
With whistle tooting and the band playing "Aloha Oe," the Malolo glided from her pier, set her nose for Diamond Head. Into the harbor gay passengers tossed their leis (flower garlands), symbol of speedy return to Hawaii. But no leis were cast back by Lieut. Massie, his wife or mother...
Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...