Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward VII. Medical examiners found him "organically in good condition." He settled down to take the cure for two or three weeks, reduced his cigarets to two per day, cut out veal. It rained steadily. He stood the discipline for five days, then set out again on his gay travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest...
That spreading civilization is crowding and exterminating wild creatures saddens Dr. Ditmars. He ends his book, which is preponderantly gay, with a reverie: "The beasts of the earth [are] getting none of the reverence. . . . Man is becoming a highly presumptuous type...
sometime dramatic critic for the New York Times, Sun, Herald, World and colyumist for The New Yorker, announced that he would appear this autumn with Francine Larrimore (Chicago, Let Us Be Gay) in a play called Brief Moment...
...important buys during 1929 was Berkey & Gay, a Grand Rapids company making high class general furniture. The concern was one of the oldest in Grand Rapids and its $9,000,000-a-year sales volume made it one of the biggest. It was not operating at a profit because the furniture business then, as now, was confused and upset. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, president of Simmons Co., planned not only to make his company potent in furniture but to bring stability and prosperity to the entire industry. In great advertisements in the Grand Rapids press he stated: "It is my desire...
Unfortunately, Mr. Simmons never had his desire satisfied. In the furniture field his company trod on many ancient toes, no stability came. Berkey & Gay refused to make money. Recently the lights had to be shut off during the daytime as well as at night. And when last week Simmons Co. reported its July sales (down 17.3% from last year) an important footnote was appended. Since Berkey & Gay no longer operates, Simmons Co. has written its entire investment off the books. The exact price of this investment has not been revealed, but in 1928 Berkey & Gay...