Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British people these fulminations seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...
...Fiesta" and we were so gay...
...live on her annuities. This year she launched her Dnude Ranch at San Francisco's Fair-this time as proprietress, while other young women did the physical labor. By Sept. 30 she had netted $32,433. Meanwhile, business looked so good that she opened a second show, Gay Paree...
...Radcliffe myth must be exploded" Miss Hariette Slote, Radcliffe '42 declared vehemently in explaining the "Gay Group," an undergraduate quartet devoted to changing Harvard boys' opinions of Radcliffe girls...
...feature is built around the most threadbare of trite plots, the Cinderella story, but it at times reaches a brilliance of satirical comedy that is beyond most second features. Based on life at a Princeton week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...