Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about spies. It's actually worse than most second run features. The opening scene given definite promise that the picture will develope into something pretty miserable, and the spectator is not disappointed. There are chases in the night, airplanes, motorcycles, machine guns, and just everything. In between times, the gay dashing and apparently (from this picture) boring life at an Army post is depicted to the point where people start getting restless and rustling paper candy wrappers. Plan to miss...
...lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize Boston parties. Therefore they can see no reason to start rival parties of their own in Cambridge...
...visiting team's dressing room in Philadelphia's old Shibe Park was dressed up to look like a banquet hall one day last week. Gay flags hung from the walls, a long table sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting...
...should be allowed" (TIME, Dec. 6), Exchange members expressed their reaction by hooting, whistling and booing on the floor of the Exchange, crying "Casino!" whenever they had trouble buying or selling at a desired price. Wall Street's official reaction was a painfully courteous promise by Charles R. Gay. president of the Exchange, to look into the situation...
Last week President Gay made good his promise. He appointed a committee "to consider all aspects of a further development of the organization and administration of the Exchange, including, among others, the advisability of making the presidency a salaried office, of transferring greater administrative responsibility to executives, and of making the function of standing committees supervisory rather than administrative, and to report its recommendations ... as promptly as possible...