Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Z. Leonard (The Divorcee, In Gay Madrid, Let Us Be Gay, The Bachelor Father, It's a Wise Child...
Also announcing style trends last week was Amos Parrish, unique style forecaster for U. S. and Canadian retail buyers and merchandisers. To his seventh Fashion Merchandising Clinic in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre went 100 store buyers, advertising and sales managers. "More lady-like than ever-and certainly gay," said Amos Parrish last week. "Women will look taller this fall. . . . And of course they will not be wearing their hats on the backs of their heads. Fashion is now tilting her hat forward over the right eye." Alert, keen, Forecaster Parrish senses style trends like a hound after a badger...
Across the street from the Temple of Light is the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, a convivial organization which occupies the basement of Architect Benjamin Howard Marshall's gay pink house. So quietly, bothering no one, does Baha'i meet, that last week's celebration of the Bab's martyrdom (with readings and prayers led by Mrs. Corrine True of Wilmette) went quite unnoticed by the yachtsmen...
...Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves...
Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...