Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Human engineering," said Professor Gay in his address on the occasion of the dedication of the George F. Baker Foundation. June 4, 1927, "now is demanding the cooperation of highly diverse scientific specialists--economists, statisticians, politicial scientists, historians, psychologists, biologists, physiologists, as well as men of the medical, legal, and engineering professions and always at the center, the business planners and coordinators...
...take pride in the fact that my father was a gay man, that he liked to give and receive parties. For many years after he was well past 70 we kept, with all the ardor of a religious rite, a cocktail hour...
...conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, Strauss's ghastly, gay, Till Eulenspiegels...
Brahms: Sonata in D Minor (Columbia, 3 records, $2 ea.). Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and Pianist Harry Kaufman in a late period Brahms that is variously tender, vibrantly gay, mournful, resigned...
...Gay (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This fragile but witty drawing room piece, successful on the Manhattan stage last year, is the sort of thing that the talking cinema in its present stage of development can do best. No Hollywood hack writing has been permitted to change the thread of the story, although the prelude of unhappy married life has been elaborated. Norma Shearer takes two parts-first a dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman...