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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Attack at Arthurdale | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Until the last period the lead changed hands with every score, but the Cadets rode off with the victory with the concluding rally. Gay Dillingham was high scorer for the Crimson with three goals, and tied the Army Captain's total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMY RIDERS EDGE CRIMSON | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sea Design | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...riders last week at Myopia by an 8-6 margin, the Crimson polo team will tomorrow face the hardriding Army Cadets at West Point in the second game of the spring season. The Varsity riders in tomorrow's encounter will be Skiddy von Stade, Ben Forbes, and Gay Dillingham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riders Meet Army Away | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along, tells some good stories, the main impression communicated by her book is that in the end she decided that the childhood advice of her South Dakota neighbors was not so bad as she had thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tent Culture | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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