Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name was similar to the Russian word meaning gay (Vyesioliy) that when Russians say "drunk as a cobbler" they mean very drunk...
...Tenor Beniamino Gigli. So long as it lived she would feel sure of success. Conchita Supervia succeeded in selling out the house with her Carmen, in convincing the audience that she was really Spanish, alluring and sure of her power over men, in recalling the Carmen of Spanish Maria Gay who used to tear an orange apart with her teeth and spit out the peels...
...sophomore, ah there's your gay dog. He has looked into the bright face of danger and smiled a challenge. There is still a week more much to do, oh so much to do. And there are any number of good reviews being given...
Broadway and Seventh Avenue come together to form an acute triangle five blocks long with Times Square at its apex, Longacre Square at its base. Here is the centre of Manhattan's theatrical district, "The Gay White Way," the most crowded part of the city by night and the spot that strangers want to see first. Such pleasure-bent strangers and New Yorkers as have gone there between 7 and 10 o'clock any evening in the past few weeks have viewed an interesting sight: a line of shabby men (a few women among them), chins deep...
...saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made the action partly a parody of border romance. Because the cinema takes itself more seriously, the climax, where the millionaire lets the girl go in order to increase his selfesteem, seems out of character instead of gay and suitable. Del Rio chants, in almost Gregorian tones, such bits of pidgin slang as "You betcha my life." She photographs as beautifully as ever...