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Word: gay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When vivacious Maribel Vinson, nine-time U. S. figure-skating champion, renounced her amateur status last autumn to tour the U. S. in a skating extravaganza called Gay Blades, the field she had overshadowed for so many years blossomed with new enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five Little Pretenders | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose 100 feet, nose-dived into a swamp. Results: a fractured pelvis for gay Mrs. Clinton, death for Spreckels' professional pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...local malletmen enter the game favorites after their spectacular win at New Haven last Saturday when Captain Skiddy von Stade saved the first Blue series match. Tonight he may again be called upon to lead a rally. Gay Dillingham and the veteran Warwick Stablor promises strong support for von Stado...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Favored Polo Trio to Face Elis in Second Series Tilt | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...Gay Dillingham will ride in the number two spot. The tall Sophomore from Hawaii carries a two-goal outdoor rating, is worth even more according to Sargent. The third berth is at present a toss-up between Warwick Stabler, 240-pounder who has filled the number one position in previous games, and Ben Forbes, recent addition to the squad who may make his Varsity debut against Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

President Conant will be among the honorary pallbearers, although he is on a speaking tour and will be unable to be present. Edwin F. Gay, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, will also be absent from the services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENOUGH SERVICES AT TWO O'CLOCK TODAY | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

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