Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where he lives, reckon that as long as life lasts will be many a year for the Hon. Joseph Buffington. Though he no longer sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used daily...
...earnest by Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen any time before the Nazification of Austria. Besides having Kurt von Schuschnigg as fiance, she had as fancy a pair of slanting eyes and as sensitive a pair of musical ears as any blonde in the city. She was 33, a moderately gay divorcee, an intelligent conversationalist-and consequently popular...
...nucleus of a "luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with deck swimming pools, gay Lido decks, more spacious cabins and airconditioning, the Commission was even considering the ingratiating idea of changing the names of the ships to those of the three east coast countries they will visit, starting Sept...
...Harold Ickes here, not Secretary Ickes," expostulated the gay and youthful groom in a bright blue suit. "I am not thinking of official business...
...point of love, Commissioners Healy and Hoeflinger were mollified enough to join in a unanimous approval, though "feeling that some modification . . . would be desirable." Said Sculptor Milles: "A fountain should be a gay and happy thing. . . . They ask me why there are sharks in the fountain, when there are no sharks in the Mississippi and I reply that this is an important wedding and the guests have come from...