Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the most optimistic signatories of the open letter held out little hope of seeing handsome Baron von Cramm. in his customary flannels and gay-striped blazer, step out on the international tennis courts this summer...
...Exchange, may hang in his office an etching of the Exchange signed by the president. From 1930 to 1935 Richard Whitney signed about 2,000 such etchings. By last week the Exchange had quietly recalled 200 of them, substituted the name of the present president, Charles R., Gay...
...Filed with President Gay last week, but not made public, was a report of a committee appointed to recommend some way to bond officers or insure market accounts against failure of a firm...
Personally, Composer Offenbach was a Parisian among Parisians, a gay, bespectacled, cane-toting boulevardier, a wit, a capricious poseur. Musically, he was a past master of delightful superficialities. Published last week was his first adequate biography in English,* a carefully documented but humorless and solemn book by ex-Journalist Siegfried Kracauer...
Suicides. Jailed or jobless was every Jewish journalist as Nazis took over Austrian papers, filled them with glowing reports on the new Anschluss. Carefully kept from the populace was the news that a wave of suicides had swept over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike...