Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ckner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were the small fry, like Wilhelm Weber, a radio speaker, Leonhard Reindl, an office clerk, and jolly, buxom Maria Henle, the beer hall's cashier, in the old days a gay waitress who called the boys Adolf, Rudolf, Heinrich and Hermann, and often bragged about splashing beer in the faces of the best of them...
With his wife and 14-year-old daughter, he lives part of the time in a big Manhattan town house, part of the time on a 50-acre estate in Pennsylvania's literary-minded Bucks County. Dark-eyed, grey-haired Beatrice Kaufman, whom he married in 1917, is gay, sociable, hostessy, keeps her husband in touch with such friends as Woollcott, Harpo Marx, the Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted...
...each new Federal building, it has adorned 553 of them with painting and sculpture at a cost of $841,000, is now decorating some 400 others. No longer is art restricted to the biggest buildings. Thanks to Government murals, many a small-town post office and courthouse is gay as Joseph's coat...
...adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes that seem destined to play an obligate for this gay company for a good many Broadway weeks...
...relief from British broadcasting, especially on Sundays, pre-war Britishers had simply to twirl their radio dials to Radio Normandie, Luxembourg, Juan-les-Pins or any of the other gay, Continental "outlaw" stations. Outlaws they were because, unlike BBC, they carried advertising. Favorites they were for variety, swing, snap-courtesy of Lux, Pepsodent, Alka-Seltzer, etc. But war put the commercial "outlaws" out of business-precariously situated Luxembourg for reasons of neutrality, Normandie and other French stations for la belle propaganda. This left blacked-out Britishers wholly at the mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone...